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Add-ons not showing in new Confluence server installation
Asked by subramanyam.calicutayyappan@callhealth.com:

Hi,

I've setup Confluence latest version server which has come with universal plugin manager 2.21.3.

I'm using apache mod proxy for redirecting the SSL traffic to 8090.

Everything else on the site works, except when I go to Find add-ons or Manage add-ons nothing gets loaded.

Acessing Find-addons or manage add-ons page link from each of them sometime refer to page not found for below:

/plugins/servlet/upm/marketplace

Clicking 'Settings' in Find add-ons or Manager add-ons page says 'Your request cannot be completed at this time.'

Please suggest.

Thanks,

Subramanyam.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your proxy (or network/firewall) is not allowing the server to contact the marketplace


Tags: confluence-administration
Content Table list
Asked by lawrence_zabala:

Hi,

I need a macro where I can take certain pages and list them into a "status" table. What I wanted was a table to have a dynamic list of rows (pages). And then my columns will be my versions (16.1, 16.2, etc..). I plan to append the columns along the way while my version increases. I tried Content Report Table macro but the columns are not editable. And I was thinking more of a specific page and it's children rather than using labels but I can't seem to find a way to list pages and its children.. My goal so that whenever I add another child page on the main page, this "status" table gets updated automatically.. How can I achieve this?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: If you just need to list the page titles then the Page Tree macro will do the trick.

If you need a table with definable columns that will update automatically when a new page is added, you need the Page Properties Report macro. Bear in mind that this does use labels, but you can display whatever columns the Page Properties macro table contains.

If you've not used these before, you add a Page Properties macro to a page and add a table to the macro, containing rows of data. This data will be displayed in the Page Properties Report with one row for every page that has the Page Properties macro on it.

More info:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-properties-macro-724765240.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-properties-report-macro-724765250.html>

comments: author: lawrence_zabala
body: I don't think this is what I need. I want a table that could list down pages dynamically, but the columns can be edited.. I have an application that has a number of modules in it. I have standard implementations that needs to be on all of the modules. I need a table that would list down all of these standard implementations, and then several other columns pertaining to multiple versions. This would then enable me to have a checklist of all my standards on several versions..

Standard \| 1.0 \| 2.0 \| 3.0 \|

Stndrd 1 \| Y \| N \| N \|

Stndrd 2 \| Y \| Y \| Y \|


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Unfortunately it's an either/or situation. Either your table can be created dynamically, OR your table can be edited.

The only possible (clunky) workaround I can think of is to have a table that contains a macro in each cell along the header to return the page name. That would give you a dynamic link to each page, but you'd have to add each page manually to your table.

Other than that kind of solution I don't think what you want can be done in Confluence. There may be a plugin that does it though?
how to export and save all custom user macros?
Asked by Pavel Potcheptsov:


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You may have some luck exporting it directly from the database:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/144023>

or you could try using this plugin (marked as only compatible up to 4.3, but it may still work:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/archive/com.appfusions.confluence.usermacro.user-macro-exporter>


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to send an email notication when a user is added as a watcher to either a space or a page?
Asked by Roberto Saltini:

As per title, I would like users to be notified when they are added as watchers to either a space or a page.

Is this possible?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: No, it's not possible on the OnDemand platform (Confluence Cloud).

You could set up your own alerts using whatever technology you prefer if you're hosting your own Confluence instance though.

comments: author: Roberto Saltini
body: I am hosting my own Confluence instance. How can I setup an alert of this type?


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Unfortunately Confluence doesn't provide bespoke notification functionality like JIRA does, otherwise you could just select the event and fire off the email notification.

I've not tried to setup a bespoke Confluence alert system myself, but you have access to the front end, the database and an SMTP server so it absolutely should be possible. Atlassian Support might be able to point you in the right direction, or if not there are consultants who will be able to set this up for you - try the Atlassian Experts: <https://www.atlassian.com/experts>


author: Jonas Andersson
body: I would simply use the "Share" feature, which will send an update to the page. Once the person edits the page, they will automatically become watchers. This also prevents people from being spammed by confluence pages/spaces.


Tags: confluence-administration

notification
No permissions after integrating confluence with crowd
Asked by Paul Stewart:

i'm building a test environment for several JIRA products and want to use Crowd for centralized ID/pass

Crowd is installed and appears to be working fine.

I added Confluence and set it up for authentication via Crowd. This tested fine and everything from what I can see is correct. The only "dumb" thing I did though is removed local authentication on Confluence which appears to have removed my admin privileges.

To be clear, my "admin" login on Confluence is the same login as what I added to Crowd. That login is a member of the administrators group.

Is there a way I can (via SSH) modify the Confluence configuration to re-enable local authentication while i look into this further?

Thanks,

Paul


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: \>To be clear, my "admin" login on Confluence is the same login as what I added to Crowd.

Ah, now that's not quite true, and I think that's the problem here. Confluence lets you have many user directories, and it looks for things in order. An object (user or group mostly) in one directory is **totally** separate from the others. If you have duplicate objects, it uses the first one it finds in the first directory.

So, I suspect you have admin (internal) and admin (Crowd). And admin (Crowd) is not in the administrators group for Confluence.

First, I'd try adding admin (Crowd) into the admin groups via Crowd. Problem there is that the Crowd groups may also not be set up to allow admin too, so you'd still be stuck.

Then, I'd try re-enabling the internal directory in the database. There's a table called cwd_directory which contains a column for enabled/disabled, as well as the order. Simplest trick would be to first delete or rename "admin" in crowd (if the crowd directory is higher in the list than the interna one) and then just flip the "enabled" flag on the internal directory. Have Confluence offline while you do that, or it won't realise you've changed stuff.


author: Paul Stewart
body: Thanks!


Tags: confluence-administration
create a new page using Java
Asked by bahar pattarkine:

looking for sample code to create new confluence page

please advice


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: From an internal add-on, or via REST from the outside?

comments: author: bahar pattarkine
body: REST Java , i found an example to update an existing page [https://bitbucket.org/jaysee00/confluence-rest-api-example/src/99cee347f6630fe0937538fc3902dcf2e9cd5037/src/main/java/com/atlassian/api/examples/Main.java?at=master\&fileviewer=file-view-default](https://bitbucket.org/jaysee00/confluence-rest-api-example/src/99cee347f6630fe0937538fc3902dcf2e9cd5037/src/main/java/com/atlassian/api/examples/Main.java?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)

I am looking for an example /sample code to create a new page


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Well, the plain call is shown under create page at <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-server-rest-api/confluence-rest-api-examples>


author: Marcel Woschek
body:     curl -v -u admin:admin -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 

    -H 'Accept: application/json' -d'{"type":"page","title":"new page","space":

    {"key":"ATTACH"},"body":{"storage":{"value":"<p>This is a new page</p>",

    "representation":"storage"}}}' "http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/

    ?os_authType=basic"


author: bahar pattarkine
body: I am looking for Sample Java code

, i found an example to update an existing page [https://bitbucket.org/jaysee00/confluence-rest-api-example/src/99cee347f6630fe0937538fc3902dcf2e9cd5037/src/main/java/com/atlassian/api/examples/Main.java?at=master\&fileviewer=file-view-default](https://bitbucket.org/jaysee00/confluence-rest-api-example/src/99cee347f6630fe0937538fc3902dcf2e9cd5037/src/main/java/com/atlassian/api/examples/Main.java?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)

i am looking for creating a new child page


author: Jeet G
body: Nic, what about from an internal add-on?
Bonjour j'ai perdu mon licence Confluence et je peut pas le recuperer
Asked by Khmaies Ben Dkhil:

Bonjour

comment je peut recuperer ma licence


Answers:
author: Fr?d?ric Tardieu
body: Bonjour,

Tu peux r?cup?rer ta licence sur <https://my.atlassian.com/> apr?s t'?tre identif?,

Cheers,

F.

comments: author: Khmaies Ben Dkhil
body: Merci pour votre r?ponse

Je sait que c'est possible de le r?cup?rer de cette m?thode

Mais le probl?me que l'adresse mail avec le qu'elle je me suis connecter est n'est plus valable aussi le serveur est n'est plus accessible
Confluence Cloud Rest API Authentication
Asked by Andrew Emil:

In the past, I was able to authenticate against my Confluence Cloud instance using Basic HTTP Authentication. It seems that recently the authentication mechanism has been changed to no longer support this.

Is there any way to authenticate against the confluence cloud rest api without making a plugin?


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: Please be aware of the below bug that can be causing this:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-41704>

In case this is not the case, then please log a support request in [support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com).

Cheers,  
Dario


author: Ethan Metsger
body: Likewise. We are attempting to automate some document editing / publication in Confluence, and attempts to authenticate with basic in our cloud instance have always met with the same response:

++Basic Authentication Failure - Reason : AUTHENTICATION_DENIED++

**description** ++This request requires HTTP authentication.++

When attempting to use XML-RPC instead (hoping to grab a session cookie I can piggyback on top of), I get an error that states I've had too many unsuccessful login attempts and that I should try to use HTTP authentication to reset the login count.

Attempts to capture information at http://\<instance\>/wiki/rest/api/user/current from a browser work without issue, but otherwise everything fails.


author: Federico Pici
body: Same question!!!!!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

moderators
Roadmap Planner: can you link a bar to a URL instead of a Confluence page?
Asked by Michelle Futornick:

In the Roadmap Planner, I want some of my bars to link to an external URL, not a Confluence page. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Short answer: no

If you are running Confluence Server, than you can use the HTML macro to add a redirect to a page, then link that page to the RP bar.


author: Rachel Wilson
body: No I spoke too soon- something is wrong. If you edit the bar in the edit page- then publish the page. When you click on the bar- you dont have a chance to click the linked page- BAM you are redirected to this page..

<https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/roadmap-planner-macro>

Anyone else having this issue?

To get there- go to your roadmap page- link a bar to a confluence page- then publish it- Now click on the bar and before you can see the linked page- you are redirected..

<https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/roadmap-planner-macro>

comments: author: ple2@amfam.com
body: Rachel - did you figure this out? I have the same issue.


author: Rachel Wilson
body: I cant link anything to the roadmap planner. When I click on the bar in the chart- it immediately opens that confluence advertisement page - showing the feature. I tried to click and then click on "Link a Page" in lightening speed- to no avail. Any suggestions?

Oops was not in edit mode- disregard. But any other fool clicks on it without being in edit mode- it is automatically linked to the confluence page describing its use. You must be in edit mode to change that link - duh
how to delete an atachment
Asked by Roger Leblanc:


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: View page --\> ??? --\> Attachments --\> Delete

comments: author: Rodney Hughes
body: adding a proviso to Milo's answer

....provided your Space Access Permissions allow you delete rights ....

If not you need to contact someone in your group or the Space Administrator t delete attachments .. same for deleting a page may be prevented by your Permissions


author: Milo Test
body: Good point! Shame on me for taking permissions for granted.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
why do questions get deleted from Atlassian Answers?
Asked by Sandy Johnson:

I see questions getting deleted from here every day. Granted, some are not legitimate questions. However, I regularly see questions that I'm interested deleted quickly before any one answers them.

For example, Jane Marie Rief how to anchor tables so the top row stays put while you scroll through the table. This seems like a legitimate question.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Broadly, there are three ways to delete a question.

1. Admins, of course, can do what they want. However, they rarely delete questions, as the whole point of this site is community help. They tend to intervene in only contentious subjects
2. Those of us with a proven contribution history can flag people as spammers - not just the "is this person a spammer" button that then reports a user to the admins, but the level above, we can destroy the account, which deletes all of its questions. This really is only used for spam accounts though (although there have been a couple of times when people have created fake accounts purely for the purpose of insulting other users anonymously - those tend to be removed too. I've done it a couple of times, because the insults really were quite appalling and they had no other content)
3. Users can delete their own questions, and do

<br />

The third reason is the usual reason, and it's hard to speculate why people do it. Sometimes, it's genuinely because people have raised a duplicate by mistake. A lot of people seem to have several accounts (that's another "many reasons" conversation) and have used the wrong one. There is a strong element of spam in places too - create a perfectly sane-looking duplicate question from a while ago, get your karma up high enough that you can't be reported as a spammer, delete it, do that a few times, and then let loose with the real spam. Sometimes, there's a cultural thing - people seem to ask questions, get answers (or ignored) and just delete it for no good reason. There's cross-posting - people raise things with a vendor, and here, and on stack-overflow and and and, just because they don't think they're getting instant support from the vendor (which is **really**annoying for people monitoring all sources). I'm sure there are other reasons.

comments: author: Sandy Johnson
body: Thanks!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Oddly, I was having discussions with Atlassian only yesterday about the future of answers, so your question was timed perfectly. I think I'm going to point them at the problems I've expanded on here as well - all good feedback for better answers. Poke me if you have any ideas about improvements and I'll pass them on (or go straight to Atlassian - they're looking for feedback)
Page tree attachment export in Confluence
Asked by Pablo da Silva _ACP-JA_:

Hi,

is there a way (OOTB or with an add-on) to select a page from a space, and download all the attachments at the same time, mantaining a hierarchy in order to know the attchaments location on the page tree?. A zipped folder structure containing all the files would be ideal. I could only generate a PDF with an index table and when an attachment is present you can download it via its URL.

Thanks,

Best Rwgards

Pablo da Silva


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: If you have at least space export permissions:

Space tools --\> Content Tools --\> Export --\> XML --\> Custom Export --\> Deselect All --\> select the page you want to export


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Could you clarify your question please ...

Are you meaning you want to download all the attachments from one page? In which case there is no specific meaning of your reference to "hierarchy". You can download all attachments from one page directly by clicking the the paper clip icon just under the page title or using Ellipsis (three dot icon) and select Attachments, then scroll to the bottom of the list and select "Download All"

Or are you meaning you want to download all the attachments from a Parent page and all its Children pages, and keep some structure of which page each set f attachments came from? I think Milo's answer sounds like that might work but I haven't tried it. If it does work could you up your rating count of his answer so we all know for the future :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration
Discontinued support for Status Updates - alternative solutions?
Asked by Anne EQS:

As Atlassian discontinued support for Status Updates with 5.9 we're currentlysearching for options on how to replace that feature when upgrading.

Which solutions are you using to replace the feature?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I've heard good things about Seibert Media's Microblogging add-on.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.plugin.confluence.microblog/server/overview>
Do you know how to freeze the headers when we scroll through a table in confluence
Asked by Rief, Jane Marie:


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Headers are sticky by default. The following will cause them to stop being sticky:

Sticky table headings in view mode {#toc-hId-1617950107}
--------------------------------------------------------

In some instances table header rows will stick to the top when you're viewing a page, making those *really* long tables easier to read. There are a few exceptions though. Table headers aren't sticky when:

* the space is using the documentation theme
* **your table is inside a page layout (columns and sections)**
* your table has no header row or there are cells in the top row that aren't marked as headers
* **your table has a header column, instead of a header row, and scrolls horizontally**
* your table is inside another table, or has another table inside, with its own header row
* your table only has one column.

comments: author: Cody Cotulla
body: Milo,

Finding tables that had heading rows within tables that had heading rows and removing the heading rows fixed the problem for me.

Thanks for your post.

Cody


author: travis highley
body: I just came across this, in my case it was **row numbers**. Removed them and then I got the sticky header.


author: James Read
body: If there are merged cells, this will stop sticky headers too


author: jyotish.thomas@dib.ae
body: I am new to Confluence. Please let me know how to display a table inside confluence with header of a table frozen.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: There is an option to make table scrollable with fixed header in [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview).
Confluence - Login one account with more users
Asked by Ji?? Josefus:

Hello,

we have licence for 500 users. Is it correct to use one account in confluence to log on to confluence with more than one next users using this account in confluence?  
Or it contravene the licencing policy?

Thansk for your answer  
Best Regards  
Ji?? Josefus


Answers:
author: Ji?? Josefus
body: But in this case is this account create only for reading puspose. This account has only reading rights. Therefor I think that is possible to use this account this way.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Mmm, bit fuzzy on the legal side, but the easy answer is "don't". You won't know who is editing your site if you do that, and that's a Bad Thing (tm)

comments: author: Ji?? Josefus
body: But in this case is this account create only for reading puspose. This account has only reading rights. Therefor I think that is possible to use this account this way.

So I think that It is therefore in accordance with the licensing policy.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's a potential issue if one of your shared users automates something that then overloads it, but if you're not allowing any writes, it's fine, there's nothing you really want to track.

However, if you're going to do that, there's a good case for allowing anonymous access instead. Then no-one has to log in to read.
When will Theme Press be available as an add on for Confluence in the cloud?
Asked by Jacqui Henderson:


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Actually, theming is already available for Confluence Cloud (although there aren't any plugins available that use it yet). See this presentation from the most recent Atlassian Summit (a few days ago, 18 minutes in):

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k19dhwtIvwM#t=18m00s>

RefinedTheme is supposed to enter public beta in a few weeks, and Brikit Theme Press will be likely not far behind.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Probably never - Atlassian are trying to reduce the number of "type 2" add-ons, not increase them, and themes can only be done as type-2 add-ons.

comments: author: Jacqui Henderson
body: Okay - are there any Theme Press like solutions for Confluence Cloud?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not that I know of


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you order the blog by date descending?
Asked by Kate Hanna:

I would like our space blog to have the most recent posts at the top. Currently, the oldest is at the top, which is not useful.

Can I re-order the blog? I can't see a way to do it right now.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Did you try Reverse Sort?

image2016-10-14 11:50:19.png  
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comments: author: Kate Hanna
body: Hi Milo,

We aren't using the Blog Posts macro, just making blog post pages, which are automatically collated into our Blog Posts section. I was finding that these posts were displayed oldest first, and there seems to be no way to set the sort order. However, I went in this morning and it looks like they're now newest first, so maybe that was some kind of blip.

Many thanks for your answer.