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Page Properties Report Macro doesn't display data for multiple Page Properties Macros on one page
Asked by Trudy Claspill:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/page-properties-report-macro-658736894.html>

The page states:

Reporting on specific Page Properties macros {#toc-hId-1704886915}
------------------------------------------------------------------

You can add multiple Page Properties macros on a page, and choose whether to include all or only specific macros in the report. The Page Properties macro includes an optional ID parameter that can be used to identify specific Page Properties macros.

To show the contents of:

* **All Page Properties macros** in the report - specify just the label for the page.

We have done exactly that, but the report macro displays data from only the first Page Properties macro. Here are the steps I executed;

1. I created a blank page.
2. I added one Page Properties macros to the page.
3. I inserted a table into the macro.
4. I deleted the header row.
5. I added keys to the first column and values to the second column.
6. I added a label to the page.
7. I created a second blank page.
8. I added the Page Properties Report Macro
9. I added in its configuration the label (all lower case) from the first page.
10. I saved all pages.
11. I confirmed that the page with the report displayed the data from the page with the macro.
12. I edited the first page - the one with the Page Properties Macro.
13. At the top of the page I inserted another Page Properties Macro.
14. I copied the table from the previously added macro into the newly added macro.
15. I changed on the values in the newly added macro.
16. I saved the page. Note I had added this second instance of the macro at the TOP of the page.
17. I refreshed the page with the Report macro. Now it displays data only from the newly added Page Properties Macro.

Our Confluence version is 5.6.6, hosted on our own server.

Has anybody else encountered this problem?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hello there,

<br />

This is actually a bug as you can see here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34141>  

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates. I also suggest you to comment in the bug, that way our Bugmaster can see how this problem is impacting your business.

WZ
Grant access to Confluence only for user from specific IP?
Asked by Michael Gawrychowski:

My company needs some kind of a wiki portal for sharing documents with our warehouse employees who don't have login credentials to Jira. I was wondering if there is any way to restrict access to certain documents or spaces based on the requestor IP address? If that is not doable, what would be the best way to handle this issue?


Answers:
author: Nick Reilingh
body: Is there a reason you can't accomplish this with regular user group permissions? Your warehouse employees would belong only to one particular group that has access to the desired space and no other spaces.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Licensing doubt
Asked by Armenio_Andrade:

Hi there,

Im from Brazil. I have a company called Qualify Tecnologia that is thinking about buy confluence.   
We are a small-business, so we have up to 7 analysts who will add information to confluence.  
I already used confluence in other professional experiences. So im familirized with the tool...  
I know that confluence have an export tool, from this pages to pdf documents.

My doubt is if, we from Qualify(analysts) can use this confluence tool to export our client/customers documentation. And deliver to our clients. It is legal for Atlassian??

Sorry for bad english!


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Is your question about licensing of .PDFs? The format is open, so there is no problem there.

comments: author: Armenio_Andrade
body: Ok, the format PDF is open. But, my question is. If is totally legal for Atlassian. Use confluence to store data from our clients. And deliver to then by exporting from confluence?


author: Milo Test
body: I can't think of any legality issues, at least not in America.

Your clients might have question having their information in the cloud, but even that is removed by using Confluence Server.


Tags: confluence-administration
Cannot find Index Card Macro on projectDoc add-on
Asked by Atlascloud Admin:

I'm trying to create a project Glossary based on: <https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC/Create+a+Project+Glossary>

And I noticed two macros seems to be missing on my system

1. Index Card Macro
2. Index Entries Table Macro

The installed add-on are:

* Project Toolbox 1.9.2 (licensed) on Confluence 5.9.3
* projectdoc Core Doctypes
* projectdoc Developer Diaries
* projectdoc Doctypes for Agile Planning
* projectdoc Doctypes for Software Development

Please advise.

Thanks,

Jay


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: The macro is available in version 1.10 (which is about to be released this month).

I'm sorry for the confusion. The "since tag" is on the macro documentation pages, but was missing on the page you referenced.

comments: author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Just a short note: the [projectdoc Toolbox (v. 1.10) is available on the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1212629) today - including the [Index Card Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Index+Card+Macro) and [Index Entries Table Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Index+Entries+Table+Macro)


Tags: macro
What is the default maxThreads and accceptCount for a plain confluence install?
Asked by NathanG:

In our confluence server.xml file we have this:

```
&lt;Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"                maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="10"                enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"                protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" /&gt;
```

However, I can't remember if we changed this from the default... does anyone know what the default settings are for maxThreads and acceptCount?

Thank you\~!


Answers:
author: Ezra Rezky
body: Hello Nathan!  
The settings for your maxThreads and acceptCount is of the default value. Here is the snippet of default settings in the original confluence server.xml:  

Screenshot from 2016-02-23 09:52:28.png

And I believe your server.xml still retain the default value.  

Hope it answered your question and have a good day!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-is-the-default-maxThreads-and-accceptCount-for-a-plain/qaq-p/450175?attachment-id=8968){#link_1191071c7ba246}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/76155/1/Screenshot%20from%202016-02-23%2009%3A52%3A28.png){#display_1191071c7ba246_0}


Tags: confluence-administration
Delete a space - how long should it take?
Asked by Elena_Lurye:

How long should it take normally to delete a space?

I have a space with 965 pages and it takes almost an hour..

Is it expected behavior?


Answers:
author: Alex Yasurek
body: I have had spaces that big take a long time to delete. If I remember correctly it took about 30-40mins so its doesnt sound that far off but that is a long time.

comments: author: TomC
body: Agreed, and I would think it's not only the number of pages but elements like how much content is on the pages, how many macros on pages, how many and how large are the attachments to pages that all can add to the time.


author: Elena_Lurye
body: I see.... so it is expected... Thank you very much for your answers!


Tags: remove

space
Is there a product roadmap available for Confluence?
Asked by Shimrit Janes:

I've seen from 2013 that [Atlassian don't publish their roadmaps](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/220685/confluence-jira-roadmap), but wondered if this was still the case?

Our client would ideally like to be able to plan ahead so they can see what's in the pipeline (as well as eg how they need to be preparing their servers, etc), as Confluence is their main intranet, but we're unable to advise them.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Broadly, this has not changed. Although you do get a bit more notice as Cloud stuff is upgraded frequently and well before any releases.

comments: author: Shimrit Janes
body: Great, cheers Nic!


Tags: roadmap
Displaying JIRA custom field values as links on Confluence pages
Asked by Michael Bernhard:

Hi Andrey,

We are using [Query Issues Custom Fields](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ru.mail.jira.plugins.lf.queryfields/overview) in our JIRA and we love it. :smile:

There is just one little thing that would make us even happier:  
Our JIRA issues are connected to Confluence pages. On these Confluence pages we are using the JIRA Macro to display JIRA field content in table forms, e.g. issues that we linked with your add-on.

So far so good, now it would be great if we could display this content as links and not plain text.

Do I just miss where to put the right setting or is that a great functionality that could be added to your add-on?

Thanks a lot and best regards,

Michael


Answers:
author: Michael Bernhard (privat)
body: Andrey, I haven't received any reply on this. Can you please look into it?  
Thanks,  
Michael


Tags: addon-ru.mail.jira.plugins.lf.queryfields

confluence-administration
How can I expand Excerpt and Code Block sections in Confluence when logged in as a specific user?
Asked by Dan DeRemer:

Hello,

My company is hosting an on-premises copy of Confluence 5.4.3. Somehow in my daily fumblings with Confluence, I have ticked a setting somewhere that causes all Excerpts and Code Blocks to show up collapse (only the title shows if there is one, otherwise it is a small gray bar or dashed line). I simply cannot find the setting to change this back to showing those elements as expanded. This issue appears to be tied to my user account as I can reproduce the result in other browsers on other systems that have not logged into Confluence before. I also ruled out browser extensions in this issue by running freshly installed copies of Chrome and Firefox and was able to reproduce the results. I can see the information contained in the Excerpts or Code Blocks when I edit the page, just not when I am viewing a page normally.

Can someone offer some suggestions on what might be causing this issue? Thanks!

-Dan


Answers:
author: Dan DeRemer
body: Can anyone else provide some hints or suggestions to help me with this issue?

Thanks!

-Dan


author: Dan DeRemer
body: Hello,

This is happening for every page. I have edited the macros to see if "Collapse" is checked and it is not. I believe a setting for my user account was changed that I am not aware of which is causing this behavior. I need help identifying this setting. Can someone please offer additional settings to check to resolve this problem? Thanks!

-Dan


author: Siaw Yoon Kean
body: Hi Dan,

Does this issue happen for every page that you view or only certain pages?

If it is certain pages, then you probably have the "collapse" checkbox ticked for the macro. Just edit the page again, select the Code block macro and the macro that is collapsed within the Excerpts macro and edit it to un-tick the "collapse" checkbox. For Example:

collapse.png

Hope this helps.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-expand-Excerpt-and-Code-Block-sections-in-Confluence/qaq-p/368460?attachment-id=6281){#link_119107764f02e5}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/62245/1/collapse.png){#display_119107764f02e5_0}


Tags: confluence-administration
Cannot connect to database
Asked by Phillip Jones:

I am having trouble connecting to any database using pocketquery. On my sandbox site for confluence, I am able to connect with no problem. Version 2.0.4. On the same version on the regular confluence, I am getting the following error. "IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection"

pocketqueryerror.PNG  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Cannot-connect-to-database/qaq-p/316671?attachment-id=7425){#link_1191077686886f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/53532/1/Pocketquery_StackTrace.txt){#display_1191077686886f_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Cannot-connect-to-database/qaq-p/316671?attachment-id=7426){#link_1191077686886f_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/53532/2/pocketqueryerror.PNG){#display_1191077686886f_2}


Answers:
author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Phillip! If your database server is not pingable from your Confluence server, PocketQuery won't be able to connect to the database either. You'll definitely make sure a connection between Confluence and the DB server is possible...


author: Phillip Jones
body: It turns out that our production instance of Confluence is hosted by another company offsite, and that is why we could not reach my databases from there. Have you ever run into this situation? I am not sure that I will be able to easily ping outside of their domain.


author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Phillip, the root cause of your exception is actually this:

```
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: VMDEVDB01.PowerPlan.ppc.com
```

It seems your Confluence cannot connect to that host, but it wants to when it establishes the DB connection.


author: Phillip Jones
body: It is a very long dialog, I am going to attach it. Let me know if you need it posted in the actual comment though.


author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Phillip! First of all, thank you for your interest in PocketQuery! Could you please click on the "Stack Trace" link and post the content of the dialog that will appear?
How to change the background of space logo to transparent? '.avatar-img { background-color: transparent;}' not working
Asked by Lucia ?ag?tov?:


Answers:
author: Eric Daras
body: ```
img.avatar-img {
  background-color: transparent !important;
}  
```

To be certain that no specific style will override it.

comments: author: Serghei Avdonin
body: You can customize the look and feel of this space by editing the Space Stylesheet. The custom space styles will overwrite all global custom styles and theme styles.

Thank you, Eric,  
The piece of code you've provided resolved the issue even though the image was png.


author: Lucia ?ag?tov?
body: Well, I have used this .png picture as a global space logo:

global.logo.png

And I have managed to remove the border from the logo, so now it looks like this:

result-so-far.png

The problem is, that I would like to remove the white section around the picture. I assumed it is a background and therefore I have used this command to set it to transparent in the global stylesheet (and I am have not changed any of the individual spaces' stylesheets, so the problem is not in overriding the global stylesheet settings):

.avatar-img { background-color: transparent;}

Is there any way to change the background? Or remove it? I don't want to make any changes to the picture itself, such as changing its dimensions or color.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Lucia Sagatova  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-change-the-background-of-space-logo-to-transparent-avatar/qaq-p/430935?attachment-id=11715){#link_11874bb744cb10}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/73018/1/result-so-far.png){#display_11874bb744cb10_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-change-the-background-of-space-logo-to-transparent-avatar/qaq-p/430935?attachment-id=11716){#link_11874bb744cb10_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/73018/2/global.logo.png){#display_11874bb744cb10_2}


author: Milo Test
body: It would help to know what you are trying to achieve, but have you tried simply using a .png?


Tags: confluence-administration
Do restricted pages appear in that space's search results?
Asked by David Baron:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139414)*

If I as the space admin, restrict certain pages in the space, when (non-admin) users do searches in that space, will the search results return hits on the pages I've restricted?

And in the greater sense, does restricting pages effectively HIDE those pages from the restricted users? Or can they see the restricted pages exist (in the TOC for example), but just not access them.


Answers:
author: JamesT
body: I just ran into this, looking for one of my one pages created in a restricted "folder". I couldn't find it through the Search at all!

How come restricted pages are hidden in Search from those who can access them?


author: Karen_Mustain
body: If you have been affected by this issue. Please review the following bug request and upvote it.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36393>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: They're totally hidden.

comments: author: David Baron
body: Good to know. Thanks!

One follow-up question: Does restricting a parent page, restrict all the child pages under it? For example, if my TOC shows:

Parent

Child1

Child2

And I restrict "Parent," are Child1 and Child2 also restricted, or must they be manually restricted?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Broadly speaking, yes, child pages inherit restrictions. See the middle section in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html> for the exact rules (note that it changed a bit a few versions ago, so if you're not on 5.9, go back and select the one you are on!)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

restriction
Is there a limit to number of pages for PDF backup?
Asked by Elena_Lurye:

I am trying to backup a space with 925 pages. It is getting stuck at 50% for hours.

Works fine for smaller space or partial backup of the large space..


Answers:
author: Hans-Hermann Hunfeld
body: Same here, smaller parts of a space (successfully tested with 194 pages) can be exported without any problems, but entire space (approx. 2k pages) runs several hours without any further process (stopping at 50% while converting page 1 of x to PDF) but causes heavy performance issues...


Tags: backup

confluence-administration

pdf
Best Practice: Changing User Directory and merging users
Asked by Fiederling:

We would like to switch from an Apple Open Directory LDAP to a Microsoft Active Directory. On the new Active Directory some usernames will change and and some usernames will not change.

On Apple Open Directory we configured "Read Only, with Local Groups" (Users, groups and memberships are retrieved from your LDAP server and cannot be modified in Confluence. Users from LDAP can be added to groups maintained in Confluence's internal directory.)

Unfortunately I couldn't find any informations how users can be merged, so that their own preferences, confluence-groups, permissions, tasks, etc. will not be affected by the changes.

Can you explain the steps and best practices.

My idea is to disable the old ldap connection, change the usernames manually to match the new usernames and then configure the new active directory as the default user directory. Will this work?


Answers:
author: Tim Eddelb?ttel
body: Hello,

we've done similar (different LDAP User Repositores with different usernames to one) years ago with Confluence and JIRA as rename where not possible.

Because rename is now possible this is much easier than before.

I would suggest you

1. that you write the old username in a new field within your MS AD. This new field will be your username in the LDAP field mapping (default is sAMAccountName).
2. Shutdown you Confluene instance
3. Go to your database (table: cwd_directory_attribute) and look for ldap.url and ldap.user.username. Change Booth to your new server and new temporary attribute
4. Then start Confluence and wait for the directory sync and look if all content looks like before
5. When all is fine and authentication works, you can switch back the LDAP field mapping to the default field

Migrating user directories needs some testing on a test server but it is possible. But every configuration is different and needs some testing.

Regards,  
Tim


author: Fiederling
body: HI Tim,

Thanks for your reply. This worked perfectly.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence v6.0 - When will it be released and what's in it?
Asked by Stuart Webster:

Dear Atlassian Team

I am a Confluence user and I notice release 5.9.5 was released on 11 Jan 2016. Is v6.0 due for release later in 2016?

Thank you

Kind regards

Stuart


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Atlassian routinely comments that they do not publish details about product roadmaps.

However, it's safe to assume that [realtime editing](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8333) will be part of the next major release (6.0), as also [confirmed by Sherif Mansour](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32971322/answers/32973444).

It also looks like Atlassian is bringing realtime editing to Cloud very soon, [and could be releasing 6.0 for server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/blog/2016/02/collaborative-editing-is-coming-to-confluence-cloud) as early as April, though they won't commit to specific dates.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Good question. Sorry I might have flagged it as spam by mistake, I hope it won't be deleted.
Is there a method to delete multiple users at once?
Asked by Michael Mills:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Add, edit and remove users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=744721624)*

We have hundreds who need to be deleted - doing that one at a time is, to say the least, tedious.

This is for Confluence Cloud.


Answers:
author: Boris Georgiev [Appfire]
body: You can try to do this using the confluene remote API:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api/confluence-xml-rpc-and-soap-apis/remote-confluence-methods#RemoteConfluenceMethods-UserManagement>

Also check out the Bob Swift Confluence CLI add-on which should support this and probably be much easier to use if you're not very experienced in scripting

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli/cloud/overview>


Tags: confluence-cloud

user-management
the Deck and composition-setup Macro stop working ('unknown macro')
Asked by dvir yoskovich:

Hi,

Did someone see an issue that pages with macros stopped working?

in my case the "Deck" and "Composition-setup" Macros stop working (i got : 'unknown macro')


Answers:
author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Check if you licence on composition plugins have expired. This is the most common causeof plugins stopping to work abruptly (without any change to your confluence)

<br />

Rahul


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That suggests the add-ons were disabled or removed.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Pardon, are you hosting Confluence behind your own firewall or are you using the Atlassian Cloud Confluence product?
Exchange default search box with brikit
Asked by Bj?rn Gullander:

How can I change the default search box in Confluence to the brikit targeted search box?


Answers:
author: Maggie Modersohn
body: Hi Bj?rn,

The answer to your question varies depending on whether you use Theme Press or not. If you're using Theme Press, all you need to do is add the Targeted Search Field macro to a header or footer page and check the "Replace Confluence Search" box.

If you're using a different Theme or vanilla Confluence, you can follow the instructions here: <http://help.brikit.com/display/SEARCH/Targeted+Search+-+Add+Search+Box+Sitewide>

I hope this helps!


author: mark butterfield
body: It would be great if someone could provide an example of the main.vmd to replace the search in the standard template.


author: Bj?rn Gullander
body: Hi,

When using Vanilla Confluence, it works fine if I just remove the part *include-filters=forms,webinar\|* in the code

However, we are using Refined Theme and when turning that on it does not work with this code.

Any ideas?


Tags: brikit

refined-wiki