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Restricting Users to setup personal homepages
Asked by Dominique Rada:

Hi,

We want to restrict External users from setting up their own homepages through their profile. How do we do this? We are using Confluence 10.5 Server.

Currently we have legal disclaimer message on our Global Homepage which all users go through after they login. But each user can at the moment change their hompage through their profile settings. How can we prevent this from happening?

We have set users into internal groups and external groups. Can this be done at a Group permission level? or can it be done at an individual level?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: You bet, you can remove the right for them to do it via Admin -\> Security -\> Global permissions and restrict "personal space" to the users/groups you select.

Preventing people seeing an existing personal space is up to the actual space permissions though.

![confspace.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7951i55ECD04A0F7EEC80/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confspace.jpg")

comments: author: Dominique Rada
body: Many thanks Gregory. Much appreciated.


Tags: adaptavist

confluence-administration

permission

user
How to move a GLOSSARY from one space (personal) to another space (enterprise)?
Asked by Fred Lee:

Is it possible to move glossary from one site to another without re-typing everything?


Answers:
author: Gregor Kasmann_Actonic
body: Hi Fred,

What do you mean "glossary"? Is it some add-on for Confluence?

comments: author: Fred Lee
body: It is a [feature](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf55/confluence-user-s-guide/getting-started-with-confluence/confluence-glossary)!
Generate file thumbnail via API or code?
Asked by Marcelo Goto:

I'm trying to programmatically (using Java) upload a file and generate the thumbnail to preview it without the need to download . I made the upload part work through REST API but the thumbnail part is not covered in the documentation and I can't find anything related searching in the web.

I want to do something like this:

![confluence_01.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7923i829A62787866057E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_01.png")![confluence_02.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7924iF2AD1A4EB6923842/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_02.png")

Does anyone know if this is possible/how to do it?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Marcelo Goto](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1157711)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/creating-an-image-thumbnail-from-code/34278>

<https://www.adoclib.com/blog/how-to-generate-thumbnail-for-attachment-uploaded-via-the-confluence-rest-api.html>

Cheers
Newly created page won't publish
Asked by krista carpenter:

I created a page but it won't publish. When I click publish I get this error:

**Can't sync with the server.**

Refresh the page to try to re-establish the connection.

Why is it doing this?


Answers:
author: Sevval
body: Hi, I have the same problem. How can I solve publish problem?

comments: author: krista carpenter
body: The only resolution was to wait a few hours and try again. It seemed to work itself out.


author: Sevval
body: really !! Okay, I will try your suggestion.


author: Sevval
body: I waited a while trying but it didn't improve. I created a new page. I found a solution in this way.


author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: There's some troubleshooting documents on synchrony - this is what runs collaborative editing - [document.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/troubleshooting-collaborative-editing-858772087.html)

After you refresh are you able to publish, or not able to publish any page at all?

comments: author: krista carpenter
body: When I refresh and click publish I still get the error message:

**Can't sync with the server.**

Refresh the page to try to re-establish the connection.


author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: Ok - did you get a chance to work though the troubleshooting document on synchrony?


author: krista carpenter
body: ### I do not have access to the Admin console to check Synchrony is running {#toc-hId-1567471222}


author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: Ok, sounds like an administrator needs to chime in from your instance to resolve this.
Confluence Calendar
Asked by GaryN:

I am creating a timeline on the Confluence calendar that has five different phases of a project. Each phase has a specified number of days in a month. We utilize different colors for quick reference for each of the phases. Is it possible to select a different color for an event in the calendar.

Also, the calendar displays the current month you are in. Is it possible to have it stay static? For example: If I create a calendar for project phases that start in July and ends in August. I would like the calendar when I embed it with the specific project to always display in August for example with the ability to scroll forward or back. Currently, it always displays in the month that we are currently in.

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: Let me ask this.. Is it a calendar you want or a roadmap planner?

![roadmap.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7952i5F906296106AE8A9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "roadmap.jpg")

comments: author: GaryN
body: A calendar. I figured out how to change the colors. However, I have not been successful in keeping the calendar static.


author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: I believe the calendar will continue to scroll with the current date.
Hyperlink to a UI Tab
Asked by Jeffrey Filmore:

Hello,

To start off, I am pretty new to confluence. Here is what I am trying to do...

I am creating a Step-By-Step KB instructional using UI Tabs with a step on each tab.

My wish is to create a hyperlink to each step so someone can click the hyperlink for any step and the tab containing that step will open.

I tried adding a Anchor link to the specific UI tab, but when I create a hyperlink pointing to that anchor, the tab will not open.

Any Ideas.

Thank You,

Jeff


Answers:
author: Chad Shoemaker
body: I am also looking for this, if possible. I'm basically trying to do the same.
Can I require questions to have a topic? Alternatively, is there a "default" topic?
Asked by Yaacov Weingarten:

When a user asks a question, can I require him to choose a topic from the list of topics. If not, is it possible to define a "watcher" for questions that were not assigned a topic, so that the watcher can add the topic?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Yaacov,

Questions does require at least one topic. For more information please see [Confluence Questions - Topics](https://confluence.atlassian.com/questions/topics-407724479.html). It will suggest a topic to use once the user starts asking the question.
> Every question must have at least one topic. This ensures there are no orphaned questions in your site.

If this behavior isn't happening for your copy of Questions, can you let me know what version you're using?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Is there a way to use the Related Pages macro via wiki markup in the sidebar?
Asked by Jessica Weissman:

I would like to show a set of pages with a given label in the sidebar. Couldn't find wiki markup for that macro. Is there a way? I tried some wiki markup based on earlier examples, but couldn't find one that worked.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jessica,

I think, you mean the **content-by-label**-macro. This macro is not working in the sidebar. There's an open issue for that:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-46502>

The "related-labels"-macro is working there, but I don't think, that you meant this one.

comments: author: Jessica Weissman
body: Thanks, you're right. I've voted for the issue.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: You're welcome :-)

If you think, your question is answered, please mark it as answered. With such a sign, other users may find answered questions more easy.

Thank you.


author: Jessica Weissman
body: I voted for your answer, but I don't see a way to mark the question as answered. Is there a button I see only if I am some kind of admin?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Jessica Weissman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/183968),

just click on the checkmark left of the vote button:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8137iC32D548DB9A3B164/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: There's also an article about this written by [@Mikael Sandberg](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853579):

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/How-and-why-to-accept-a-solution-to-your-question/ba-p/656156>


Tags: side-bar
Attachments File Not Found
Asked by Connor Mainwaring:

Attachments that had previously been uploaded to our Confluence instance are no longer accessible as we receive an attachment file not found error.

Both of our application nodes have access to the same shared home directory, and that is the path that Confluence uses to save attachments yet we still receive the error for some reason.

Any assistance is much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Connor,

Since you have verified Confluence has read and write access to its home directory. The next step would be to follow Atlassian's guide to resolve missing attachments in Confluence. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-resolve-missing-attachments-in-confluence-201761.html>

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: [@Connor Mainwaring](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/93376) Quick gotcha alert - I understand if you export the query as comma separated instead of tab separated you will have a bad time:
> Using your database tools, export the results of this query as a tab separated file. Ensure that your file does not include the header names.
Hiding sidebar and menu-bar at top (need help !)
Asked by Marcel Plomp:

We want to incorporate a space with application information into our operational software. The goal is that users can see this information without the need to log in to Confluence and without the left hand sidebar and menu-bar at the top.

For this my colleague has created a script that we added to the Main layout decorator for the space. We inserted this at the end of HEAD. The script is as follows:

\<script\>  
AJS.toInit(function(){  
//If the sidebar is visible, hide it and the split bar...  
if (AJS.params.remoteUser == '' \&\& AJS.$("div.ia-fixed-sidebar").width() \> 0 ) {  
// hide the sidebar area (including space tools)  
AJS.$("div.ia-fixed-sidebar").hide();  
// ...then change the width and position of the content  
AJS.$('div.aui-page-panel').css({'width':'100%', 'left':'0', 'margin-left':'0'});  
};  
});  
\</script\>

The script works fine but only partly. We achieved that the sidebar is removed. The menu bar is also gone. We also managed to hide the footer (this is in another part of the decorator). We still see the bread crumbs and the page title.

The problem is that when we scroll down on a larger page, the content moves over the bread crumbs. The bread crumbs themselves also move up but only a little bit. When we scroll up again we don't see the title anymore.  
Refreshing the page bring us back to were we started (obviously)

In addition to that, we still are missing is the following.

* center the page
* limit the width to 960px

When we add code for this, we create some other problems. Somehow the breadcrumbs move to the right hand site instead of staying on the left hand site.

Does anyone have a solution?

We use Confluence 6.0.


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: I think you should just use CSS. You could identify the regions you would like to hide and use display:none property. Center the information and setting a maximum width could also be controlled with CSS.

comments: author: Marcel Plomp
body: I actually was hoping if somebody has a code available.....
difference between atlassian connect and user macro
Asked by Alexander Nicola?:

You can't write user macro's(add-ons)in confluence cloud. buth you can make macro's (add-ons) in atlassian connect for the cloud ? what is the difference?

greats


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: User macros do the same in both Cloud and Server, but you, the end user, is stopped from using User macros on Cloud because they are potentially unsupportable. User macros are powerful and you can effectively write code inside Confluence.

Connect add-ons that provide macros to Cloud do it within a framework where you can't break Confluence by writing them (well, you can, sort of, but the worst case is "remove add-on" to fix it)


Tags: confluence-cloud

connect

user-macro
Checking AddOns before upgrading Confluence
Asked by Jorge Mora:

Hi all!

I'm upgrading a Confluence instance. First of all, I'm doing it in a test environment, but after upgrading it in a production environment, I want to ensure that all plugins are upgraded without issues.

What do you recommend to do? Is it a good idea to enable Safe Mode after upgrade to disable all plugins and then exit to this Safe Mode? Flush the cache before upgrade could be another option?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Jorge.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jorge,

I do none of that. But of course, I try do be as safe as possible like that:

* update all apps (plugins) to a version that supports your new Confluence version also
* create a whole copy (if possible) of your production Confluence and move it to your testing stage - everything, database, files, attachments
* update confluence in your testing environment as you would do it later in your production environment
* test, test, test and let others test
* Backup your production environment completely (server, home directory and database) in case you encounter problems.
* update confluence

That's how we upgrade (and we have quite a lot of apps). Up to now, I've never had big issues by upgrading Confluence like that.
Is it possible to pass something from ScriptRunner to atlassian-confluence.log?
Asked by Bartek Zukowski:

Hi,

In ScriptRunner for Jira it's pretty standard to log something in server logs to leave a mark that the script is doing something (especially something wrong).

But in ScriptRunner for Confluence I cannot find any information about passing data to server logs.

Simpliest log.warn("something") doesn't do anything, even in Logs tab of a Script Console.


Answers:
author: Stephen Cheesley [Adaptavist]
body: Hi Bartek,

If you update your "Logging and Profiling" settings by adding the following package name and set the log level to match your requirements, you should then see your script log output in your server logs:

```
onresolve.scriptrunner.runner
```

I hope this helps!

comments: author: Bartek Zukowski
body: Hi Stephen,

Does it require some newer version of Confluence? Because in our 5.9.6 it doesn't change anything...


author: Bartek Zukowski
body: OK, I double checked it and I found one place when it works in some way: **/confluence-home/logs/atlassian-confluence.log**

It doesn't work in **catalina.out** and it doesn't work in Script Console's **Logs** tab.

Better than nothing I guess :)

Thanks, Stephen!


Tags: adaptavist

scriptrunner
Confluence makes Linux server down
Asked by James Liu:

Dear,

I have a Linux server which hosts 2 confluence servers.

Recently, when I access confluence via web browser, server will be shutdown.

Please tell me how to fix this issue.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Peter DeWitt
body: [@James Liu](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1104442), check your proxy and/tomcat logs for errors. As you question stands, there is not enough information to recommend anything more. If you find any errors, you can add them back here and others members can offer advice.

pd
Why does Confluence display the parent page incorrectly when creating a new nested page?
Asked by Ben Forbes:

If I create a new Confluence page nested under another page, the page location (shown just above the page title) always shows the grandparent, rather than the parent, of the new page being created.

If I click the Location button just to the right of the location string, it does show the "Current location" correctly, and if I click Move without changing anything (which doesn't *actually* move the page), it changes the location string to be correct.

Note that the page *is*always created at the correct location, it just doesn't display the location correctly on the new page drafting screen.

Why is this the case?


Answers:
author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: Hi, I tested this in confluence server 6.2.3 and was not able to reproduce.

What version are you on?

![breadcrumb.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7878i98AF4C8B9F818469/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "breadcrumb.png")

comments: author: Ben Forbes
body: Hi Greg,

I'm using Confluence Cloud. Here's a few screengrabs that demonstrate what happens. In the first image, I've created a page "Test Parent" and I'm creating a new page below that:

![1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8021i54EA95D823FDB254/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "1.png")

In the second image, we can see that the location is listed as the root of my personal space:

![2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8019i614F4BB4173DC3D9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2.png")

In the third image, we can see that the current location is indeed correctly set to be "Test Parent":

![3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8020i83C6C3A99C4A75A2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "3.png")

Cheers

Ben


author: Ben Forbes
body: I have submitted a bug report on this here: <https://getsupport.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/23/JST-341251>


author: Ben Forbes
body: JIRA issue here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-58123>


Tags: confluence-cloud
Require a comment when checking off an action item
Asked by Joe Harmon:

I have meeting notes with a list of action items that are represented by a checkbox. Does anyone know of a way to have it prompt to add a comment when something is checked off? In fact it would be really cool if it could just call into the comment function, where it quotes the action item and asked for a comment.


Answers:
author: Gregor Kasmann_Actonic
body: What version of Confluence do you use? Cloud or self hosted?

comments: author: Joe Harmon
body: We host it ourselves and the confluence version is 6.1.3
Permissions report for confluence spaces
Asked by sjames@liquidnet.com:

My company uses confluence and I just wanted to know if there was a reporting tool that would allow you to view permissions on confluence spaces (e.g. confirming that only the Legal group has access to the Legal confluence share). I have tried to find such a tool in the marketplace but I have not had any luck. Please advise as this is part of a data access review that we would like to get done as soon as possible.


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: I don't know about an app, but you could run a query against the database and get the information, see this KB <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-list-which-spaces-a-group-can-access-720636535.html>


Tags: confluence-server
Hide Confluence Categories
Asked by Chuck Vanderwist:

We have a confluence server instance that serves as a repository for all documentation for vendors who are developing products through our organization.

The problem is, the vendors who do business with us are competitors of each other. Our corpsec does not want the vendors to know WHO is doing business with us.

Confluence does a great job of exposing these vendors to each other through Categories and Labels.

If we use any vendor name to label a page or categorize a space, any user can view the list of vendors currently doing business with this.

So far my research has revealed no solution, and in speaking to the Confluence PM's at summit, they have no plans to control categories or labels via permissions.

Are there any plugins that allow the category name to be hidden unless the user subscribes to a space that is labeled with that category?

So fare I've played with RefinedTheme, and while it claims to do this, it actually displays ITs category names front and center at the top of the page.

I can't imagine I'm the only company with this problem...


Answers:
author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: Appears to still be an open request for this feature: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-43563>

Other than that, I've only seen site wide modifications documented via: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-elements-in-confluence-using-css-or-javascript-313458894.html>

Perhaps you can use a combination of these if RefinedTheme lets you modify style sheet on a more per page instance.
Rel6.4.2 testing collaborative editing - gray avatar shows 'changes not published'
Asked by Dia:

We are testing the avatars that display on a page when in collaborative edit mode. The gray avatar will continue to appear for a user that HAS published changes. Displays the text: "...has made changes that haven't been published." Repeated tests show the same results.

![grayavatar.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7874iF22DAD54FAA76DD5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "grayavatar.jpg")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Dia,

Thank you for your patience. We were able to replicate the issue, and have reported it as a bug to our development team:

* [CONFSERVER-54073](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54073)

At this time, there is no workaround, but please watch the case to be updated if there are any changes. If you could, please also vote on that case, since it helps show the team how many users have been affected by this issue.

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: fbunting
body: Hi Shannon,  

CONFSERVER-54073 appears to be a *different bug.* It describes a very rare condition when two users happen to click **Update** at the very same time.  

The problem described in this post happens much more frequently -- I believe whenever someone clicks \*Update\* while others are actively editing. Thereafter, even after everyone stops editing, no matter how many times someone edits the page (whether they make another change or not) and clicks \*Update\*, the grayed-out avatars for past editors never disappears, and each one has the tooltip "... has made changes that haven't been published."  

The only way to clear these Avatars is to choose "Revert to last published changes." This indicates that the \*Update\* button is not purging the shared draft.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello there,

Thank you for following up on this thread. I've included your feedback on the bug. Another user has noticed the same; it does not only occur when they click Publish at the same time.

Please vote on the bug if you have not already, and you will be updated of any progress going forward.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Dia,

I just had the same error on my own site, but when I went back in as my user and clicked Update then the message went away. Is Daniel able to login and try editing and updating the page without making any additional changes?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Dia
body: Hi Shannon,

I had Daniel try (2x) to edit the document and update with no changes - his gray avatar remains with same text. :(


author: Shannon S
body: Dia,

Thank you for the update.

I'm working with another engineer at the moment who also has a case with the same issue. Please stay tuned and I'll let you know what we recommend to clear that message.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: avatar

collaborative-editing