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Creating pagetrees from an unstructured space -- any tips?
Asked by Darryl Lucas:

I used the UWC to import from a MediaWiki instance and it's created a flat space, containing over a thousand pages, without any pagetrees. I expected the pages to be pagetree structured -- based on the way the MediaWiki articles are linked to each other. Fortunately, I can navigate the new sapce because the articles are still linked to each other.  

Does anyone have any tips for fixing this? I'd like to find a spider-like tool that autobuilds pagetrees!


Answers:
author: Darryl Lucas
body: I've ended up creating pages off the home page called A through to Z and alphabetically storing the pages in them as children. They're now a little more manageable because the biggest parent has about 40 children.

All the pages are interlinked as you'd expect in MediaWiki. I was hoping for a tool that would crawl the links and auto build the pagetree. Sadly, it's going to be a hard manual slog.


author: David Skreiner
body: When we first imported our old wiki, we had almost78000 pages in a "flat" space.

... fixing this using the in-built drag\&drop UI did not seem like a good idea because it's slow.

(We're currently looking trying to find documentation for some kind of UWC "Hierarchy builder" plugin ... any other suggestions?)

comments: author: discountrobot
body: Totally depends on your tree structure.

This could be another XMLRPC answer (yay) depending on how you want the hierarchy and if it is possible from the pattern of your pages.  

If you supply more details, i could take a shot at it.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: 1000 pages in a flat tree? Wow. I would probably consider breaking them up into separate spaces.


author: Darryl Lucas
body: The page tree takes about 15 mins to draw because all 1000 pages are children of the home page. I'm looking for any tips around restructuring, please.


Tags: confluence-administration

mediawiki

universal-wiki-converter
reducing PDF file size
Asked by Poorani Aravindan:

Is it possible to reduce the customized PDF file size or can we generate .ps files instead of pdf files.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi,

I don't know about any plugin that canreduce the size of the PDF, but I suggest you to try this plugin instead of the bundled one, for test purposes:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf>

Hope it helps!


Tags: confluence-administration
Best way to keep track of incomplete pages?
Asked by amelandri:

Often happens to be interrupted while writing documentation or maybe you don't have all the informations to complete a page.

I found this solution: I add a label "incomplete" to the page and I created a page that lists all the pages thta have the label "incomplete".

This is usable, but I'd like also to add a note to specify what I have to do on that page.

How do you keep track of incomplete pages?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: I simply add a TODO tag to the top of page, like:
> TODO add a section about "foo bar"

...and add the *"expire-14-11-01"* tag to the page, to mark that I need to return to this on 1 November 2014 (if I know that the information will be available by then).

As we use our own automatic [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) to get notified on that given day, I can totally forget it and continue working on something else.

**[Read expiration label explanation here](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-expiration-tracking.html#labels)**


author: Mick Davidson
body: Alessandro,

A couple of ideas:

You could add a note in the field that appears when you edit a page. The field is at the bottom of the page and says: What did you change?

You could also try adding a task for yourself on the page describing what has to be done.

Cheers.


Tags: confluence-administration
How can we remove metadata from a page
Asked by Vincent Thoul?:

Hi all,

Apparently, as soon as a metadata is added in page, we can update it ...

But how can we remove it ?

Vincent


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Vincent,  

I'm not sure if I fully understood your question. If you are inside confluence editor and add some macro or content, you should be able to remove it directly in the editor window of confluence.  

Which version of confluence you were running at that time? Are you having some strange behaviour running a newer version of the application nowadays?  

Cheers,  

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
High Availability configuration for Confluence
Asked by RAMAKRISHNA ACHARYA:

Do we have any document for configuring the high availability for confluence ? please let me know.


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: i think it should help you

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+Large+Confluence+Installation>

comments: author: RAMAKRISHNA ACHARYA
body: Thanks a lot
Filter pages in a space by task and task status
Asked by Andreas Beutel:

Our editor team is wondering if they could filter pages in a space by task and task status (maybe with a custom macro, ...).

They have set up a space to collect content for a new website (\>700 pages). Every page has a task section with tasks like \>\>\[ \] content reviewed\<\< and \>\>\[ \] approved for transfer to CMS\<\<. They would like generate a page as status-overview where they generate a list of all pages (like the built-in child pages macro) and apply a filter by task (marked as done) so they can can see the list of all pages approved or \>\>ready to transfer\<\<. Tagging the pages was not an option since tasks and task notifications are perfect for their workflow.


Answers:
author: MasSa'Seen Francis
body: Yes... I too am looking for this functionality
Confluence OndEmand - Billing on Prorated User count
Asked by Amol Mategaonkar:

Hi,

We are using Confluence OnDemand and we have 10 user licnese. I want to add a couple of more. Say 12. I read that it will allow me to add additional users and we will be billed additional price on a prorate basis for that month.

However, I wanted to confirm whether we will be billed for additional 2 users only or 15 users? As the pricing sheet shows 1-10 users as one band and 11-15 as anothe band. Do I move directly from 10 USD per month to straight 50 USD per month or it is prorated based on the user count?

I hope it does.

Regards


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's done in bands, not per user. 12 users puts you in the 25 user band, so you'll need to be paying the $50 per month. (Also, if you remove users and drop below 10, you will not be moved down automatically, you will need to contact sales to downgrade)


author: RambanamP
body: Your best adviser would be our Sales Team, they will be more than happy to assist you:

Email: [sales@atlassian.com](mailto:sales@atlassian.com)  
Phone: <http://www.atlassian.com/company/contact>


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

confluence-cloud
Access rights problem with Confluence
Asked by Luke H:

Hello,

I'm new to Confluence. I've created a new space called "Bendon - Support". I've added a new person and have given this individual app access to JIRA and Confluence. I've then added this individual to this confluence space. This person has all permission.

I've logged into JIRA in a new browser as this person and they have JIRA access. I use the nav in the top left hand corner, click on Confluence or go straight to the WIKI url for the "Bendon - Support" space and get an error saying "Not Permitted - You are not permitted to perform this operation."

Any ideas how to fix?

Thanks

Luke


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: You probably need to add the person to the 'users' group because, by default, only accounts in the 'users' or 'administrators' group have Confluence's "can use" permission. You can view this at /wiki/admin/permissions/globalpermissions.action on your instance.

The 'application access' layer of security sits on top of the apps, but the apps still have their own global permission settings, and accounts need to pass through both of these checks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence: Cannot drag and drop pages in a new Hierarchy
Asked by sharma-shweta:

Hi,

I have recently lost the ability to move of a page by drag/drop.

Can someone tell me what might be the issue?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi,

To move a page, you need the following permissions:

* 'Add' permission on the page you are moving, and
* 'View' permission on the page's parent page. So if you are moving the page to a different parent, you need 'View' permission on the new parent.

Dragging and droping is the same like moving a page. Please check your permissions and try again.

I hope that will help.

Best Regards,

Mirek


Tags: page
"You're trying to edit an outdated version of that page." when using the confluence json-rpc API
Asked by netjunki:

I'm trying to use the storePage method to update a page. From reading the docs I came to understand that if I want to use storePage to update a page I need to provide the page id and the new version. But no matter what I try I seem to the this error about trying to edit an outdated version. There is currently only one version of the page... and nothing has it open to edit. Anybody got a clue what's going on?

Here's the JSON-RPC call I'm making:

\[ {"space" : "AUTO", "title" : "APITest", "content" : "abba", "id":"34637287", "version":"2" }\]

Anybody got any theories?


Answers:
author: Sergey Svishchev
body: Send old version, Confluence will increment it itself. (The error message could be clearer.)

comments: author: netjunki
body: Figured this out on my own about 5 days ago actually... :-) Had forgotten I'd posted a question. I figure the reasoning behind this is to be able to alert a script that there's been some sort of change before they update or something like that?

Anyway accepted your answer since it was correct.

Thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Setup
Asked by Naohiro Kumamoto:

Hi,

I am new to setting up of Confluence. For a team of 10 people we planned to setup free trial and then buy it.

I downloaded \`Download You Host\`atlassian-confluence-5.2.4-x32 software and installed it.Does it include Apache, DB along with the package or should i install it separately.

How do i host to the team so that they can access it ?

Please explain me.


Answers:
author: Zul NS _Atlassian_
body: It includes Tomcat and Java. There is a HSQLDB which we do not recommend for Production use. The default port for Confluence is 8090 (usually it is mentioned during installation), you can try to access yourself via localhost:8090 on the machine hosting Confluence. The team can access Confluence via IP address of the machine and port.

Check out the [Setup Guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Setup+Guide) and [User Guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+User%27s+Guide) for Confluence.


author: Naohiro Kumamoto
body: thank you ...


author: Naohiro Kumamoto
body: thank you so much..it works fine now..

i have a question regarding apache ... as my pc is the hostsystem..if i shut down my PC the apache would not run... how to make it run always so that my team can access it any time...

comments: author: Harry Chan
body: You computer needs to be up the service to be up. You'll need to have something running 24/7 in that case. A server would be a good idea. If not, best to go with OnDemand or another provider that hosts Confluence for you to remove the hassles.


author: Steve Thornhill
body: As mentioned above, the default web address should be <http://localhost:8090>

Check your server.xml file to see if the port address is definately set to this, check in windows services that the Confluence service is started (running)

If there is still nothing happening, check the log files in the logs directory in case there are any messages about the initial configuration.


author: Naohiro Kumamoto
body: thank you the reply..i installed the software in windows and started through Start Menu, but the web page is not displayed ... I am getting error message page cannot be displayed.


Tags: server
Subscribe to Page Deletions?
Asked by Matt Uebel:

Is there a way to be notified when any page is deleted?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you watch the space you will get delete notifications.


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: One approach would be to subscribe to [email notifications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content) for updates.


Tags: confluence-administration

page
Javascripts don't run in Confluence HTML-include macro
Asked by Gabrielle Gagnon:

We tried inserting Visio-generated HTML diagrams into Confluence 5.0 pages, using the HTML-include macro. The pages include Javascripts that link to and display the diagrams and supply pan and zoom functions, but the Javascripts never run.

I did the same thing at another site on Confluence 2.11, so I know the macro can run them, but it doesn't work here. Our admin said he tried a few things, but no Javascript runs on any HTML pages he includes, not just my Visio-generated code. He's enabled HTML and white-listed the URLS. Is there another setting he is missing?


Answers:
author: Gabrielle Gagnon
body: That's right. We enter a white-listed URL.

Going to the page directly in a browser runs the scripts so that a diagram is displayed on a page consisting of 2 frames. The diagram is displayed on the right side and the pan-and-zoom panel with some other functions is displayed on the left. It's the standard way Visio generates HTML diagrams.

I've attached the raw HTML file as generated by Visio. (It's too long to put in this comment.) We edit this so that all the addresses are absolute since Confluence requires that.

(I don't see the uploaded file here, but basically, it's almost all script functions. ) All that gets rendered on the page when the scripts don't run is a heading and a link to the diagram:

\<body\>

\<h1\>CMEfunctionalOverview_VML\</h1\>  
\<ul\>  
\<li\>\<a href="CMEfunctionalOverview_files/jpg_1.htm"\>Page-1\</a\>\</li\>

\</ul\>

\</body\>


author: Gabrielle Gagnon
body: That's right. We enter a white-listed URL.

Going to the page directly in a browser runs the scripts so that a diagram is displayed on a page consisting of 2 frames. The diagram is displayed on the right side and the pan-and-zoom panel with some other functions is displayed on the left. It's the standard way Visio generates HTML diagrams.

I've attached the raw HTML file as generated by Visio. (It's too long to put in this comment.) We edit this so that all the addresses are absolute since Confluence requires that.

(I don't see the uploaded file here, but basically, it's almost all script functions. ) All that gets rendered on the page when the scripts don't run is a heading and a link to the diagram:

\<body\>

\<h1\>CMEfunctionalOverview_VML\</h1\>  
\<ul\>  
\<li\>\<a href="CMEfunctionalOverview_files/jpg_1.htm"\>Page-1\</a\>\</li\>

\</ul\>

\</body\>


author: Davin Studer
body: What is the content of the HTML macro?


author: Davin Studer
body: So, just to clarify your are putting in a URL to another web page in the HTML-include macro and that page has the functionality to display the visio diagram? What happens when you go to that url directly?


author: Davin Studer
body: What is the content of the HTML macro?
Confluence 5.2.4 - Where did the share button go?
Asked by Michael Monette:

On our 5.1.5 instance, on each page we had 3 ooptions in the top right corner. Edit, Share and Tools.

When upgrading to 5.2.4 we only see Edit, Watch, Tools.

Where do I go to share a page now? In some Confluence 5.2.4 screenshots I see 4 options, Edit, Watch, Share, Tools.

Hopefully someone can tell me what is going on. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Mike!

In fact, the share button will appear just if you have a **Mail Server** configured on your Confluence.

After doing it, it should appear :)

Cheers!

comments: author: Arya Banerjee
body: Great! It worked!! :) Thanks...


author: Stefan Ernst
body: you might also want to check if any system plugins are disabled

comments: author: Martin Cleaver
body: Thanks - for some reason my Share Page plugin was disabled!
Why is Wiki page blank after adding Widget connector?
Asked by steven villafranca:

After following the directions in the confluence documentation (inserting other macro and imputing URL from widgetbox for confluence ), with nothing else on the page but the widget, I get a blank page. In edit mode, I can see the graphical placeholder for the widget, but after I save nothing shows up. I'm using the following URL: [http://widgetbox.com/confluence/3061ae37-c918-4d90-86df-ba37cb5ea707](http://widgetbox.com/confluence/3061ae37-c918-4d90-86df-ba37cb5ea707.). It is for the LibraryThing widget. What am I missing here?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Steven,  

Please check if this URL is allowed to go through your proxy. Also, check if it's set on the whitelist: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Whitelist?src=search>

Hope it helps!

comments: author: steven villafranca
body: Thanks so much, but I am getting the following permission error on the URL you provided:

No permission  
You cannot view this page

Page level restrictions have been applied that limit access to this page.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

empty

widget
Create personal space..
Asked by Kisko:

I would like to know if there is any way to create a personal space for just one person. is there any personal license or something similar? I just want to use as a personal wiki but I cannot see the "add new place" button..I dont know whatelse I have to do..

Thanks a lot


Answers:
author: Jo?o Sena Ribeiro
body: There used to be a free personal license, back in 2006 ([check this](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2008/09/lets_get_person/)).

I still have mine on My Atlassian... :) Don't know if it's still valid.

Despite it not being available any more, you can get a Starter license for $10. And the money goes to charity. And you can share the wiki with 9 of your friends. :)


author: Kisko
body: Thanks,

actually what I'm looking for is the possibility to use Confluence as a personal Wiki. I love the way that Confluence works. I thnik there isn't any way to get Confluence for personal use.. :(  

Thank you very much for your responses.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure what you mean by "personal wiki" - if you install Confluence or get a hosted one, you can use it any way you like really. If you want it to function as your own wiki, it can.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence allows for personal spaces, but you obviously need a confluence installation to put these in.

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for though, could you explain? For example, you're looking for OnDemand to provide you Confluence/Jira system for a single user? (The minimum is 10 though)


author: RambanamP
body: is this what you are looking for?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+your+Personal+Space>


Tags: personal-space
Prompt a Draft Save? Draft Save Interval?
Asked by Matt Uebel:

Is there a hotkey or some other method to save a draft of a page while working on it? Otherwise, what is the automatic draft save interval?


Answers:
author: Don Willis
body: There is a way to trigger a draft. Hit **Preview**. This always saves a draft as long as you have changes.

comments: author: Don Willis
body: Also note that there is a bug at the moment with displaying the Draft Saved message. It only shows up on large browsers: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30746>


author: Don Willis
body: I've added the "Preview" wordaround to <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1632> too.


author: Davin Studer
body: Looking at the AJS API I see **AJS.Confluence.Editor.Drafts.save();** You might be able to hook into that and code your own button.

comments: author: Dirk Brutscher
body: Hi,

don't know why but the command mentioned above and also this version...

**AJS.Confluence.Editor.Drafts.save({ forceSave : true }); // c.f. editor_plugin_src.js**

...does not work, I always get "Error saving draft". Any ideas?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Not sure about a hotkey, but you can configure the interval:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Time+Interval+at+which+Drafts+are+Saved>

comments: author: Matt Uebel
body: Thanks. In addition, there is no way to elect to save a draft. Here is the feature request for that ability: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1632>[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1632)


author: Davin Studer
body: This is totally not ideal, but you could set your interval low, and then just close the browser tab without hitting save or cancel to "save a draft".


Tags: draft

editor
How to enable configuration of Crowd connection for other users?
Asked by Daniel Mohr:

I have a Confluence installation which is connected to Crowd for user management. The order of the configured directories is the following:

- internal directory  
- Crowd

When logging in to Confluence, I am able to configure the connection to Crowd. My user is somehow contained in the internal directory, I guess because with this user, the whole thing was set up. Now I would like another admin user to be able to also configure the connection to Crowd in Confluence. But all others users are logged in through Crowd and because of this cannot configure the connection.

How can I add a user, which is contained in the Crowd directory to the internal directory of Confluence in order to enable him to configure the Crowd directory connection?


Answers:
author: AndrewA
body: Hi Daniel,  
It sounds as though we may be shadowing our Crowd user with the internal direcotry. To give some background, if a user exists in the first direcotry (in this case the internal direcotry) then when the user logs in they are authenticated for this first entry. This is regardless of whether or not the same username exists in any subsequent diectories and there is no way around it. Additionaly, as you know, a user cannot edit the user direcotry settings for the direcotry they are authenticated against (this is a safety measure so we do not lock our selves out).

So in short, there is no way to have a user with the same name that can authenticate via the Crowd direcotry as well as edit it. My adivce would be to use the account which was used for the initial installation as a service account for administrators to make system level changes.

Cheers,  
Andrew

comments: author: Daniel Mohr
body: Thanks Andrew, this is a feasible workaround. Is it in general possible to manually add a user to the internal directory of confluence? If we change the order of directories to have Crowd to be always the first and just turn it around to edit it, the other admin user who would then also be in internal directory would be able to login through it and edit the other one. Am I wrong?


author: AndrewA
body: Hi Daniel,

We can add a user to the internal direcotry by ensureing the internal direcotry is in the top postion and then adding them view Confluences add-user functions.

What you have stated is correct in that we could flip the directories whenever we need to edit the Crowd settings (which in theory should be rare). So yes we could do this but some would see it as inconvience but that is jsut an opinion.

Cheers,  
Andrew


Tags: confluence-administration