youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
phantom link?
Asked by S C:

Confluence is creating a link on a page where no link has been added in "edit". This only appears to be happening when capital letters are used.


Answers:
author: CEDRIC ZABEL
body: That sounds like CamelCase linking is turned on. That means words with capitals in them (as the "C"s are in "CamelCase") are interpreted as titles of pages, and a link is automatically made to it.

If you don't like it, you should be able to turn it off in the Administrative Console.

comments: author: S C
body: Cedric, might you be able to give me more details on the process of disabling CamelCase linking? My team is unable to find this option in our Administarative Console.


author: Joe Clark
body: What version of Confluence are you using? The UI for altering CamelCase linking was removed in Confluence 4.


author: S C
body: version 4.1.7-studio-3.

Is there another possible way to fix this problem?


author: Michael Knight
body: Hi SC,

You'll need to file a support request referencing this AAC issue.

The support engineer should be able to disable this setting for you directly in the database, but this will involve a Confluence restart. Please also include a window of time where we can perform the restart.


author: S C
body: Thanks for the answers everyone


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What is the best way to present tabular data in Confluence?
Asked by Jarett DeAngelis:

So, we have a lot of stuff in Google Docs -- mostly spreadsheets -- that we want to migrate into Confluence.

What's the best way to do this? It seems difficult for Confluence to display tables. There is a .csv importer macro, but it appears not to be compatible with 4.x. Does anyone have any suggestions, or has anyone solved this problem before?


Answers:
author: Wim Deblauwe
body: Not ideal, but you can embed a google doc in an iframe as well:

```
{iframe:src=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&amp;hl=en_US&amp;key=GOOGLEDOCSDOCKEY&amp;output=html|height=1500px|width=1024px}{iframe}
```


author: Joe Clark
body: There's also a commercial plugin from AppFusions that allows you to embed Google Docs \& Spreadsheets in Confluence pages - [Google Docs in Confluence](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.googledocs)

comments: author: Jarett DeAngelis
body: We looked at this, but we don't have Google Apps as an institution.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The csv macro works with Confluence 4.x in compatibility mode and soon with native support - see https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/TBL/2011/09/19/Confluence+4.0+compatibility+for+Table+and+other+plugins

comments: author: Jarett DeAngelis
body: Hi Bob,

Can you describe how to make the csv macro work "in compatibility mode?" Thanks!


author: Joe Clark
body: "compatibility mode" means that you can only use the macro via the "insert wiki markup dialog" - it doesn't yet work with the rich Confluence 4 editor.


Tags: confluence-app

table
hyperlinks in excel document is not clickable when using office excel macro
Asked by VijaykarthikaG:

When I attach an excel document (2007 format and 2003 format) having hyperlinks into confluence 4.1.6 using the office excel macro, the links just appear as text

![](../../upfiles/link_appear_as_text_1.png)


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Can you provide the Excel file for me to try?

comments: author: VijaykarthikaG
body: it does not allow me to upload an excel document...How do I send the file to you?


Tags: link

ms-excel
how to implements ajs.$.ajax in confluence 4.0 ??
Asked by liljoint:

I need to use ajax in confluence, but I have this wrong "Error occurred during template rendering: Encountered "{" at /decorators/main.vmd\[line 368, column 12\] Was expecting one of: "(" ... ... ... ... "##" ... "\\\\\\\\" ... "\\\\" ... ... "\*#" ... "\*#" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... "{" ... "}" ... . Contact your administrator for assistance."

the ajax code is:

fnSendDelete("TESTDATA");

function fnSendDelete(idx)

{

var postdata = {'index': idx};

AJS.$.ajax({

type: "post",

url: "http://URL",

data: postdata,

success: function() {

alert("ok");

},

error: function(response) {

alert("failed");

}

}); //ajax call

}

This code is OK, but doesn't work.

Please help. thanks


Answers:
author: Nicholas Lun
body: Bryan, did you ever solve this problem?


author: JamieA
body: Try to avoid mixing javascript in with your velocity. Can you put it in a separate file and source it in? Otherwise you might have to escape your dollars.


Tags: ajax
Is there a way to find out what users are using their own space for their home page as opposed to the sites homepage?
Asked by Jason Kirby:

Hi all,

I'm somewhat new to Confluence and work for a company that uses Confluence as their main site. Right now the dashboard is set as their home page and we're going to be upgrading Confluence. We need to know which users are using their own space as their homepage as opposed to the dashboard. Is there a way to determine this?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Jason,

You could get this information from your database using the following SQL query

```
SELECT entity_name, string_val as HomePage FROM os_propertyentry WHERE entity_key='confluence.user.site.homepage' AND string_val != 'dashboard' AND string_val != 'siteHomepage';
```

The above query would list the user_name and its configured homepage. If you want the list of user that uses their personal space, here is the SQL query necessary

```
SELECT entity_name, string_val as HomePage FROM os_propertyentry WHERE entity_key='confluence.user.site.homepage' AND string_val != 'dashboard' AND string_val != 'siteHomepage' AND string_val like '~%';
```

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra
Limit LDAP users in Confluence
Asked by Tatiane Silva:

Hi everybody!

I have an integration with confluence and LDAP that i will call MyAD.

MyAD has 205 users. I have a 100 users confluence licence.

So, confluence says that i've already use all 100 users.

The problem is that i will not have ALL the users of MyAD as a Confluence user.

How can i solve that? I've already tried to deactivate the users but it seems not to be working since confluence still show me "205 signed up currently"

Any ideia??

![](../../upfiles/erro_1.PNG)


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Tatiane,

They key to this is configuring your LDAP integration to only allow specific users in LDAP access to Confluence, specifically those LDAP users who are granted Confluence's "Can Use" permission as this is what counts against the license. How you do this will depend on which type of LDAP integration you are using.

If you're using what could be called "default" LDAP integration (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>) then you can limit the number of users by using an appropriate Base DN to limit the LDAP search to a particular brnach of the LDAP tree. If that's not possible due to the structure of the tree and you are using "Read only with Local Groups" you can leave the "Default Group Membership" blank so that users are not automatically added to the confluence-users group.

If you're using "Internal Directory with LDAP Authentication" (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+Internal+Directory+with+LDAP+Authentication>) you can leave the "Copy User on Login" option unchecked so users are not automatically added to Confluence. That way you manually add them and grant them the "Can Use" permission and only those users will be able to login and count against the license.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Tatiane Silva
body: Thanks Andrew , problem solved!


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Tatiane,

Andrew's respond seems to explain everything you need here. I just want to add that Atlassian have documentation that may guide you to restrict LDAP users and groups:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Restricting+LDAP+Scope+for+User+and+Group+Search>

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Tatiane Silva
body: Thanks a lot!


Tags: ldap
Adding code themes to Code Block macro?
Asked by Rafael Bodill:

I would love to add the twilight theme, or Monokai.

I really dislike all the default themes :(


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: As this should be a minor improvement, I would recommend to add the styling to the codeContent class yourself via the global stylesheet or to open a improvement request at [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com). If you're stuck creating this yourself, let me know :)


Tags: block

code

theme
I have problems with attachments java.lang.NullPointerException at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.MoveAttachmentAction.bootstrap(MoveAttachmentAction.java:112)
Asked by ???????? ??????:

When I upload some attachments to my pages on on-demand version sometime I have some problems with pdf, doc attachments. Not all doc and pdf attachments, but several are don't exist after I upload them.

When I try to see properties of problem files in confluence, I see an error "java.lang.NullPointerException at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.MoveAttachmentAction.bootstrap(MoveAttachmentAction.java:112)"

I can't delete some, I can't see them, I can't do anything with them. They are very usual - 300-400 Kb docx or pdf files.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: The mentioned error is closely related to the stacktrace mentioned in this KB: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Remove+or+Edit+Properties+of+Attachment+with+Umlaut+Characters>.

I'm guessing it happens because the Application Server URL encoding is not set to UTF-8. I'd suggest you to try out the resolution steps mentioned in the KB and hopefully that would fix the issue.


Tags: cloud
Confluence 4.2 Upgrade: Adaptivist Plugin - WARN addingService PLM Jar file was not signed by PLM Root Certificate, License Service will be unavailabl
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

I'm having issues upgrading our production confluence installation from version 4.1.9 to version 4.2.0. I've attempted this twice and both times I've been forced to roll back the upgrade.

The Upgrade in its self is sucessful and i can log into confluence, however when i request a page i get a browser error indicating that /pages/viewpage.vm cannot be found. In the application log i see the following error:

> 2012-04-11 13:31:21,738 WARN \[http-8280-5\] \[adaptavist.plm.service.VerificationServiceTrackerCustomizer\] addingService PLM Jar file was not signed by PLM Root Certificate, License Service will be unavailable  
> -- referer: <http://confluence.us.sagepub.org/dashboard.action> \| url: /display/SPSI/Alfresco+Installation+on+Ubuntu+10.4 \| userName: Fowler \| action: viewpage \| page: 44237099
>
> 2012-04-11 13:31:22,190 ERROR \[http-8280-5\] \[opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.VelocityResult\] doExecute Unable to render Velocity Template, '/pages/viewpage.vm'  
> -- referer: <http://confluence.us.sagepub.org/dashboard.action> \| url: /display/SPSI/Alfresco+Installation+on+Ubuntu+10.4 \| userName: Fowler \| action: viewpage \| page: 44237099  
> org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource '/pages/viewpage.vm'  
> ...  
> ...

I have macro's (templates) on all my pages that use the adaptivist free plugins, activiated by the Plugin Licensing Manager (PLM). My suspicion is that the WARN statement above means that when the PLM License Service is unavailable, that all the Adaptivis plugins also fail, and ultimately causes the ERROR i see in the logs.I have attached the full log of a fresh restart for reference.

Can I ask - has anyone else expeienced this issue and found a resolve before i talk to the Adaptivist community??

Many thanks.

Gavin. (atlassian-confluence.log)


Answers:
author: Gavin Fowler
body: The response from Adaptivist reads:
> Thanks for your question. None of our plugins are currently compatible with Confluence 4.2. We'd recommend removing incompatible plugins prior to upgrade or not upgrading until the required plugins have been upgraded.

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Adaptavist have updated the Page Information Plugin to version 2.0.1. this update corrected my issues with the PLM and allowed me to successfully upgrade to confluence to version 4.2.0.


Tags: adaptavist

certificate

root
Team Calendar 2.0 not compliant with Confluence 4.2?
Asked by MichaelS:

The Confluence Update Check of Confluence 4.1.9 states that the Team Calendar 2.0 plugin has not been marked as compatible with Confluence 4.2. Since Team Calendar is an Atlassian plugin I wonder if there's a known issue or is it just not fully tested yet? Has anyone tried this one?


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi Micheal,

Team Calendars 2.0 is compatible with Confluence 4.2. I have updated the information in [plugins.atlassian.com](http://plugins.atlassian.com) to reflect this. Apologies for not fixing this earlier.

Cheers,  
Matt


author: hsuhailah
body: I think Team Calendars plugin which is compatible with the latest Confluence 4.2 is yet to be released. But I'm guessing it will be released sooner or later. Will let you know if we got any news on this.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Chrome tab crashed, and I lost a bunch of work in an new draft document. Any hope of reverory.
Asked by Anthony Anthony:

Chrome Crashed while editing a draft page that hadn't been saved for the first time yet, when the draft was reloaded a ton of text was lost. Any hope to get it back.

The document hadn't been saved yet since I wanted to "save" the first verision when I was done.

The reason I'm writing is that I say the "Last saved draft date" before the crash as today. But when it reloaded it went to a version from perhaps yesterday. The draft had been opened for several days.

Thanks,

--Anthony


Answers:
author: Mike Aubert
body: The "Lazarus: Form Recovery" plugin/extension has saved me dozens of times...something you might want to check out (avail. for FF and Chrome)...but that is browser based, not anything to do with jira/confluence...and there must be some security issue with a browser plugin saving all of my form entries....


author: Mizan
body: Try asking a question [here](http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/chrome) . Hope it helps :)


author: Aspect Infra Team
body: this is doesn't correspond to jira/other attlassian product at all


Tags: browser
Can {table-plus|autoTotal=true} be used inside a {chart}?
Asked by Jyoti Baid:

I'm trying to create a chart with the following example -

{chart:title=Project Status for IDMRQ}

{table-plus:autoTotal=true\|columnTypes=S,I,I,I}

\|\| Project \|\| Design \|\| In Progress \|\| Complete \|\|

\| asda \| 0 \| 1 \| 0 \|

\| Salmon \| 1 \| 0 \| 0 \|

\| Tuna \| 1 \| 0 \| 0 \|

\| stuff \| 3 \| 5 \| 1 \|

{table-plus}

{chart}

However, I'm getting the error -

chart: com.atlassian.renderer.v2.macro.MacroException: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 3 of document : Open quote is expected for attribute "autoTotal" associated with an element type "table". Nested exception: Open quote is expected for attribute "autoTotal" associated with an element type "table".

Is it possible to do auto totals in a table and chart?

thanks


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter) add-on has a [Pivot Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Pivot+table+macro?src=contextnavpagetreemode) macro that can make different calculations on table, and [Chart from Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Chart+from+Table+macro?src=contextnavpagetreemode) macro that can visualize your calculations.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Open an [Confluence Table Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TBL) issue and I will have a closer look when I get a chance.

comments: author: Jyoti Baid
body: Hi Bob

Thanks for looking into the issue. But, the site says -

\<[span\>studio.plugins.atlassian.com](http://span%3Estudio.plugins.atlassian.com) is no longer accepting new projects. For free code, issue and wiki hosting, we offer [BitBucket](http://bitbucket.org/). For officially supported hosted Atlassian offerings, please see [OnDemand](http://www.atlassian.com/software/ondemand/overview). Questions? Email us or see [this thread on Answers](/questions/29639/why-is-atlassian-phasing-out-plugins-studio-rather-than-transitioning-it-to-ondemand).

Any ideas on how I could create the issue?

thanks


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: It is an existing project, just create a user id and then a bug report: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10149\&issuetype=1
How do I get a restored page to appear in it's original page?
Asked by Sharon Sharon:

I restored a page. It does not show up in the page's child list or the page links on the left (documentation theme). I flushed all the Confluence cache and rebuilt the index and it still doesn't show up. I clear my browser cache, no joy. I tried making edits to the page, still no luck. What am I missing?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Sharon,

Whe you restore a page it gets restored to the root of the space rather than where it lived before it was deleted - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Deleted+Page> To move it where you want it just select Browse -\> Pages and drag and drop the page from the root of the space to the relevant place in the navigation.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

comments: author: Sharon Sharon
body: The problem was partially between the chair and the keyboard. In Browse-Pages-Alphabetic view, the page showed up in the right place. I didn't think to look at the Tree. In the Tree view, it was in the wrong place. I dragged it back as you suggested in the first place and now it appears. Thanks.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: You're welcome. Glad it's sorted now.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Not seen that behaviour before. Did it get put back in the right place in Browse -\> Pages automatically after the restore or did someone move it to the right place?

Could you try temporarily moving it and moving it back via Browse -\> Pages?

Andrew.


author: Sharon Sharon
body: Hi Andrew,

I see it in the correct place when I go to browse - Pages but it doesn't show up on the child page list nor does it show in the navigation page (documentation theme).


Tags: agile

cache

index

page

restore
Create a link to "create blog post" with specific label(s)
Asked by rutinerad:

Hi,

I would like to make it easier for my users to create blog posts by creating a "new blog post" link on the blog page which points to a new blog post with a specific label. What is the easiest way of doing this? Is there a url parameter that I can set for the link?


Answers:
author: Oli S
body: I think your problem is solved by this answer:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/23087/should-passing-the-url-parameters-for-createblogpost-action-work-with-confluence-4-0-as-well](/questions/23087/should-passing-the-url-parameters-for-createblogpost-action-work-with-confluence-4-0-as-well)


Tags: blog
User has moved from one AD domain to another but Confluence has not changed
Asked by Andrew Woodward:

We have two different AD domains. Both sync correctly with Confluence. Recently a person got removed from one domain (in AD) and created in the other domain (in AD). Confluence AD sync has not picked up this change i.e. it still thinks the user is in the original AD domain. As a result the user can no longer login to Confluence.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: To avoid this, I suggest yout o change the order of the User Directories. Try to set the AD where the user currently is, to the top of the list. After this synchronize again;

Hope it helps!
Table indent works in editor, but not in displayed page?
Asked by Rick Mann:

I'm indenting tables on a wiki page, and it shows as indented in the editor, but when I save the page, the table indent disappears. Is this a bug?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi there,

I have been able to reproduce this issue and it does indeed seem that this is a bug, which I have reported in this ticket: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26178>

I have also added a workaround in the bug report, so hopefully this will work for you in the short-term until our developers are able to address this issue.

All the best,  
John


author: rswelker
body: No answer but, see [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/62614/how-do-i-indent-a-table](/questions/62614/how-do-i-indent-a-table) for another discussion of this issue.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Link to PDF/DOC/PPT etc Without Embedding
Asked by Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]:

When linking to a PDF or MS Word/Powerpoint/Excel file, Confluence automatically thinks I want it embedded in the page. Which is great in some cases, but in most cases I need to just link to file itself, rather than embed it.

Is it possible to link to a PDF/DOC/PPT/XLS without embedding them in the page?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: How are you inserting the link into the editor? It's working fine for me....

<http://screencast.com/t/ykxv0LJSlY6>

comments: author: Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]
body: Actually, the way you did it worked on my PC...

What I was doing was typing in "!" and then the name of the file and then it would show up embedded rather than a link.

<http://screencast.com/t/HbRAzWDbu>


author: Joe Clark
body: Aha :)

Yeah, '!' is for embedding. '\[' is for linking.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: [Attach](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Attachments)the file to the page, and give [link](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Linking+to+Attachments) to the file?

comments: author: Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]
body: Not quite... whenever I link to the attachment, the WYSIWYG editor thinks I want to embed it in my document rather than just link to it. I want to think it has something to do with the Office Connector but I don't see any documentation on how to disable this "feature" if that is the culprit.


Tags: microsoft

ms-excel

ms-office-connector

ms-word

pdf