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Share a Jira report filter in Confluence with users not registered on Jira
Asked by Daryn Louw:

I am sharing multiple JIRA reports in Confluence and would like a Confluence user who is not registered on JIRA to see the reports.

I created the report filters and shared with all registered JIRA users, now that this user is not registered on JIRA he cant see the reports.

Is this possible and if not how do i display this JIRA report in Confluence so everyone can see the reports?


Answers:
author: Danilo Conrad
body: Hi Daryn,

There are some alternatives to achieve what you want, but they have some caveats:

* Make the JIRA report public by enabling anonymous access to the projects returned by the filter (i.e. add the **Anyone** group to the **Browse Project** [project permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Project+Permissions)).  
  ++Caveat:++ The information on the projects will be publicly visible.  

* Configure the Application Link with a single user (e.g. using Basic Authentication) so that all requests from the Application Link are executed by the same user.  
  ++Caveat++: There will be no distinction between users for actions triggered via the application link.

Unfortunately, I do not see any easy way to achieve what you want without any drawbacks.

Sincerely,  
Danilo


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't access Confluence
Asked by DM:

#### Hello, I have a problem with accessing Confluence: when I launch Confluence in a browser, the only thing I see is a white / blank page or an error. {#toc-hId--646733324}

#### In the log files also appeared the error: {#toc-hId-240770357}

```
2014-12-15 11:20:20,898 WARN [com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread-#2] [mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool] run com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$AcquireTask@1491c5d -- Acquisition Attempt Failed!!! Clearing pending acquires. While trying to acquire a needed new resource, we failed to succeed more than the maximum number of allowed acquisition attempts (30). Last acquisition attempt exception: 
java.sql.SQLException: Login failed for user 'confluenceuser'.
```

#### We're using a VM with a MS SQL 2003 R2 Express Server. {#toc-hId-1128274038}


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

This is a database connection error. As far as I know, this can happen if you have some database password policy or the connection string to the database is incorrect.

1) Check the database password policy and deactivate it if necessary for confluence database user.

2) Check the connection string on confluence.cfg.xml file for the database. If you are using a dynamic port, I suggest to use a static one as well.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: DM
body: Hi Rodrigo,first off, thanks for your answer. We tried to change / deactivate the password, but it didn't help.In the confluence.cfg.xml there's written:property name="hibernate.connection.url"\>jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433/confluence\</property\>So I guess it's a static port (?).Regards, Daniel.


author: DM
body: Hi Rodrigo,

first off, thanks for your answer. We tried to change / deactivate the password, but it didn't help.

In the confluence.cfg.xml there's written:

property name="hibernate.connection.url"\>jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433/confluence\</property\>

So I guess it's a static port (?).

Regards, Daniel.


Tags: connection
Displaying the page version
Asked by Ramon Padilla:

Page layout.pngI would like to display a string somewhere on a Confluence page (top or bottom) which contains the version number.

E.g. 'Page Version 3.1'

Following the advice [here](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/72007/answers/3772996), I have modified the layout (Confluence Admin \> Layouts) by adding the following line to the page layout decorator content.

$confPage.version

However, this only displays the number. I would also like to display the text.

It also overwrites part of the text indicating who last modified the page. See screenshot. How can I avoid this?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Displaying-the-page-version/qaq-p/362064?attachment-id=4172){#link_1189107c3a9670}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/61265/1/Page%20layout.png){#display_1189107c3a9670_0}


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Find the following code part (<http://confuenceserver/confluence/admin/editdecorator.action?decoratorName=decorators/page.vmd>[](http://localhost:1990/confluence/admin/editdecorator.action?decoratorName=decorators/page.vmd))

```
&lt;div id="main-content" class="wiki-content"&gt;           $body /div&gt;
```

and change it to

```
&lt;div id="main-content" class="wiki-content"&gt;  #set ($confPage = $helper.page)  Page version: &lt;strong&gt;${confPage.version} ${confPage.versionComment}&lt;/strong&gt;           $body /div&gt;
```

This will display the version number and a comment, if this is your intention

You need to use the default theme, not documentation theme

And as I have mentioned earlier you can reference other page properties as described in API doc

comments: author: Ramon Padilla
body: Thanks Sash.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: You can reference other properties from Page object

See here: <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/AbstractPage.html>

Basically all the getters are quite safe to use.

For version comment: <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentEntityObject.html#getVersionComment>()

so, in your case:

```
$confPage.versionComment
```

As for text placement, I cannot help here without seeing your layout

comments: author: Ramon Padilla
body: Thanks for the reply Sash. I'm using the default layout - all I've done is add $confPage.version after the line #set ($confPage = $helper.page).


Tags: confluence-administration
reverse order of comments
Asked by Propositum Creative:

Good day.

Normally when a page is commented upon, the latest comment or etc is posted at the bottom of the page.

I am hoping to reverse that order ( unless there is a better workflow others use?)

We are designers, and post the main project item on the page ( I.E. Edit the page and post in there) and all updates to the page are added as comments. it is usually a bother to scroll alllll the way down to the bottom to see the latest..

thoughts / comments?

Thanks!

Jonathan


Answers:
author: MattS
body: JIRA has a button to do this. Not sure why other apps wouldn't. Mind you JIRA doesn't have threaded comments. And I think it should!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Two thoughts...

1) There's a javascript hack for it. I tend to avoid javascript hacks in Atlassian stuff, but I think this one is ok. See <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/28999>

2) Wait for Confluence 5.7 - comments are changing, drastically. My understanding is that they will be in the same order, but because they'll be in place on the page and not tacked on the bottom, which may make your sorting issues go away!


author: Daniel Copeland
body: Can someone tell me where exactly this script gets places in Confluence 5.4? I see the Edit Site Layouts section for the space, but it's not clear where the script goes.

Thanks!


Tags: confluence-administration
How to setup Confluence categories?
Asked by Julio Valdez:

Hi,

I'm using [Atlassian Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 5.6.5 and have created a couple of spaces but cannot create categories. Is this possible with my version?

image2014-12-12 12:52:13.png

image2014-12-12 12:6:12.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-setup-Confluence-categories/qaq-p/362498?attachment-id=6321){#link_1192ccb3d72c06}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/241041/1/image2014-12-12%2012%3A52%3A13.png){#display_1192ccb3d72c06_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-setup-Confluence-categories/qaq-p/362498?attachment-id=6322){#link_1192ccb3d72c06_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/241041/2/image2014-12-12%2012%3A6%3A12.png){#display_1192ccb3d72c06_2}


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hi there Julio, two options, they both bring you to the same place:

1. In the ++Space Directory++, press the white ![information](/html/@4DF2F60CA30FBCA0CD7B960B5D0F871B/images/emoticons/information.png "information") symbol:

   image2014-12-12 22:34:3.png
2. In a **Space** , on the sidebar press ++Space Tools++ ? Overview  
   ++image2014-12-12 22:37:47.png++

Then you're looking for this: image2014-12-12 22:39:9.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-setup-Confluence-categories/qaq-p/362498?attachment-id=12146){#link_1192ccb849a35e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/241044/1/image2014-12-12%2022%3A39%3A9.png){#display_1192ccb849a35e_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-setup-Confluence-categories/qaq-p/362498?attachment-id=12147){#link_1192ccb849a35e_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/241044/2/image2014-12-12%2022%3A37%3A47.png){#display_1192ccb849a35e_2}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-setup-Confluence-categories/qaq-p/362498?attachment-id=12148){#link_1192ccb849a35e_1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/241044/3/image2014-12-12%2022%3A34%3A3.png){#display_1192ccb849a35e_4}


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You will have to do it under space administration. Check out <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Labels+to+Categorise+Spaces#UsingLabelstoCategoriseSpaces-Categorisingaspace>

comments: author: Julio Valdez
body: I'm logged in as admin I don't see 'space tools' etc..


author: Fahad Akhtar
body: Neither do I. I do not see space tools either.
Is it possible to integrate Cloud versions with Self hosted versions of other products?
Asked by pedroguridi:

Currently we are using JIRA (self hosted server) and we are considering using Confluence, and Stash/Bamboo (currently we use self-hosted Gitlab). While we want our source code to remain hosted in-house (migrating to Stash, Bamboo), we would like to use Jira, Confluence and Hipchat in the cloud. Is it possible to use Cloud version of those products, but integrated with our in-house Stash?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Pedro,   

Yes, you can do it.

But we can't integrate Hipchat with Stash nor Confluence. Only JIRA.  

I hope this helps.  
Cheers,

WZ

comments: author: Bal?zs Szakm?ry
body: There is a built in "HipChat Push Notification" hook in Stash


Tags: bitbucket-administration

confluence-administration

hipchat

hipchat-admin

jira

jira-administration
Getting to dashboard when you've reset the site homepage
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

One of my users made me aware of an issue: If you set your site homepage to something other than the dashboard, there's no way to get to the dashboard, since the icon that normally goes there goes to whatever you have for your site homepage.

I've never noticed this before (I've never reset my personal site home page), and I'm having trouble thinking of a way of giving users access to the dashboard when they've done this. (We've got some important links on the dashboard.)

Has anyone dealt with this problem? What have you done to address it?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: We created a link to the dashboard in the Application Navigator.

Confluence Admin -\> Administration Section -\> Application Navigator

image2014-12-12 11:0:22.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Getting-to-dashboard-when-you-ve-reset-the-site-homepage/qaq-p/8355?attachment-id=3494){#link_118910df2f033a}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/1341/1/image2014-12-12%2011%3A0%3A22.png){#display_118910df2f033a_0}

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Thanks, Davin, I think that is a good solution.


author: Maggie Modersohn
body: Hi Jonathan,

I believe you are a Theme Press User but if your problem is not related to your Theme Press Space or site, please ignore this comment.

We found that Confluence's dashboard is typically not a place where you want to direct non-technical Users, which is why we made it hard for Users to get there. We prefer to use highly designed landing pages as site homepages, however there are a few ways to get to the dashboard:

1. Add the dashboard as an application link. For instructions, check out [this article](http://help.brikit.com/display/PRESS/Provide+Access+to+the+Dashboard) in our documentation.
2. You can add an [Action Button](http://help.brikit.com/display/PRESS/Action+Button+Macro) to your Header.
3. Add the [HTML Link Macro](http://help.brikit.com/display/PRESS/HTML+Link+Macro) the the header or as a menu item.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Maggie

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Thanks, Maggie. We're only using Theme Press in a couple of spaces. Appreciate the ideas, though.


author: Paula Silveira
body: Hi Jonathan,

I tested different home pages on my Confluence and I was able to set dashboard back.  
Please refer to [Configuring the Site Home Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page) in order to see how to do that.

Thanks and regards,  
Paula Silveira

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Yes, I know you can set the dashboard back. I was thinking of looking for a way to put a link to the dashboard somewhere so that users can get to it without resetting their home page.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't reach confluence with tomcat running
Asked by Pat Condon:

I am working with a test system on local Windows 7 pc for upgrade testing. I installed 5.4.4 after uninstalling 5.6.1.

The default tomcat service is running,

I have stopped and started the service

but <http://localhost:8090/> gives me 404 error

Any troubleshooting suggestions are most appreciated

Thanks


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: May be the content is just missing, try <http://localhost:8090/confluence> same 404?


author: rrudnicki
body: Pat,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you running Confluence EAR/WAR version? Do you have your own Tomcat application and Confluence running together?

I'm asking it, because only the Confluence EAR/WAR version need to have a Tomcat installed for yourself. Other versions (binary and standalone) already install Tomcat for you. Based on your description, it looks like you have two tomcats running on Confluence server and it might in conflict.

Cheers,

Renato Rudnicki


author: Pat Condon
body: Renato,

Thank you for quick reply. I get the following when running your command:

TCP 0.0.0.8090 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

running variation on command, it looks like tomcat6.exe is running on 127.0.0.1:8000 but that address is not accessible in broswer - not 404 error - 'The Connection was reset, The Connection to server was reset while the page was loading,...

Tomcat6.exe shows up on process list when "start Conlfuence' is run from Start Menu and 'Stop Confluence' makes process disappear

We have enterprise firewall that I don't know how to stop

Thanks


author: rrudnicki
body: Also verify if the Confluence database is running and confluence can access it.

Cheers,

Renato


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Pat,

The code 404 means that the page wasn't find.

Please execute the command below to make sure that Confluence is running:

netstat -anb -p tcp \|findstr 8090

P.S.: If you changed the Confluence port, please change the 8090 for the port you have setup.

If you have a antivirus, could you disable it only for purposing tests and try to start confluence again? The same thing if you have a firewall.

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: confluence-administration
Space blog stream and activity stream not displaying
Asked by Jim Barry:

I have several blog entries for the space in question and have tried using the defaults, specifying the space , specifying and author, specifying a label and specifying a date range but no luck. I am seeing the same thing with the activity stream for the space.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Do be sure to double check and make sure that Confluence is indexing properly. Occasionally I run into an issue where mine won't after 30 days of uptime, and I haven't been able to root out the cause. Not that a restart 30 days in is terrible, but still.


author: Jim Barry
body: Got it .... needed to re-index.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration>


Tags: confluence-administration
Where is the old detailed info about karma points in new Answers?
Asked by Steffen Heller:

Hello,

I am missing my favourite information from the old version of Answers.

There was a detailed list of the karma points that you received for answers. So it was easy to see and follow where and when you got feedback.

None of that I can find in the new version. All I find is the current total number under my profile name and a static graph under "reputation".

Was all that information completely abandoned?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: We have open feature requests to add this feature back in. Please vote/comment on these issues if you'd like to show your support for them:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-1367>
* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-949>

comments: author: Steffen Heller
body: Good to know. I have cast my vote.


author: Davin Studer
body: The detailed list does not exist anymore. Just another good feature that they let go of. I understand the desire to for them to use their own product, but they took a few steps backward when the moved answers to their platform.


author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi Elisa,

in the old version of Answers you could check your karma points in a detailed list or in an interactive graph (which I both liked a lot).

Do I understand you correctly that you are confirming that they were both cancelled with no substitution?


author: Elisa [Atlassian]
body: Hi Steffen,

Yes, our UI has changed a lot! :smile:

You can now find all answers that you have been working on under the 'answers', close to reputation (the graph you mentioned).

Screen Shot 2014-12-12 at 1.26.37 PM.png

Also, about the Atlassian Swag, you can find it under your Profile \>\> 'My Atlassian Swag'.

Please let us know if this helps! :smile:

Cheers!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Where-is-the-old-detailed-info-about-karma-points-in-new-Answers/qaq-p/320534?attachment-id=2208){#link_11891140e792fa}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/54073/1/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-12%20at%201.26.37%20PM.png){#display_11891140e792fa_0}

comments: author: Radu Dumitriu
body: Not good enough. We need to know our enemies


Tags: award

community

forum

karma
How to display a custom field User Picker in confluence Jira Macro and display the Full Name instead of the UserName?
Asked by Stephane Renou:

In Confluence, I insert a JIRA Macro and select to display a custom field that is a user Picker.

Currently Confluence just displays the JIRA username and I would prefer the full Name as I can get if I ask confluence to display the Reporter field for example.


Answers:
author: mpazz
body: I found this issue <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-31023>

I voted for it and I suggest to do the same.


author: Benn Ingersoll
body: Looks like this issue has been logged with Atlassian, but no movement has been made to fix/improve it.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18505>

According to them, it's blocked by <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-20361> which they've decided not to implement.

Frustrating as it takes away from the value of the JIRA Macro on the Confluence end...


author: Ringo De Smet
body: I experience the same for one of our customers using Confluence 5.4.4 in combination with JIRA 6.1.
images with 100% width in PDF export
Asked by Steffen Heller:

Hi,

I just witnessed a strange behaviour.

I have a big image in my wiki page and for the PDF export I want it to fill 100% of the text area (text area = that width that can be filled with text, not the same as full width of the page).

But whatever I try, the image is too small and ends at about 4cm before the right margin of the PDF.

I included ridiculously big images with 3000px width, changed the image width in the source code, set the image width in the PDF to 100% (as described at [Expanding embedded images on PDF exports?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/315610/expanding-embedded-images-on-pdf-exports)) and then erased everything I had in my PDF stylesheet but nothing changes.

Is there some kind of limit that can not be extended because that is how it seems?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: This is a known issue. See <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33727>

The workaround in the global PDF Stylesheet worked for me (See comments):

```
.confluence-embedded-image{ -fs-fit-images-to-width: 100% !important; }
```


author: Steffen Heller
body: There is a price for everything in life !

I just found out that now that I have included the code from above I have created a new problem:  
==\> (Some) images within table cells disappear when the page is exported to PDF.

It is all a bit complicated:

1. When I leave my PDF stylesheet untouched and just comment out that code the images reappear
2. But I have also had test runs where I changed 500 other things, left that code in and images would also show
3. For a while I was also puzzled because independent from the above some images showed and others didn't. Then I found out: Images that do not show are only those whose size was NOT changed. Big images that were minimised to e.g. 300px always show.

In the end it seems to come down to some new fancy workarounds:

* I leave everything as it is for pages with full size images or with resized images in tables
* I comment out the 100% code for pages with unresized images in tables
* If none of the above works I do a "fake resize", that is, I click the image and change its size, then I open firebug, go to the page's source code, search for the image's width and change it back to its original value.

PS: I am aware of that bug report at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31874> What it describes is similiar but not exactly the same.


author: salvatore
body: Did you mean to resize image after PDF processing? Do I need another 3rd party toolits to help with it? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Salvatore

-------------------------------------

**Tags:** [resize image](http://www.pqscan.com/convert-pdf/to-image-size-csharp.html)

comments: author: Steffen Heller
body: No, I was talking about something else.


author: Steffen Heller
body: Thanks a lot, Jobin. Perfect answer for me.


Tags: image

pdf
Confluence theme admin menu disabled
Asked by Bogdan Gavriloaia:

I have disabled Documentation Theme and after that the Admin/Look and feel/Theme menu is missing.

also the Space and create page button from the header is missing.

After enabling the theme, the admin theme menu item is still not available. I tried adding another theme but with no result.


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

This sounds like a problem with the plugins, probably the documentation theme is still disabled in the database.

I suggest to check the logs for theme errors and try to use this SQL update to enable all plugins and restart confluence:

```
UPDATE BANDANA SET BANDANAVALUE='&lt;map/&gt;' WHERE BANDANAKEY='plugin.manager.state.Map';
```

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to change the column width / text size in Confluence Roadmap plugin?
Asked by Naama Lev:

Hello Experts,

Is it possible to change the column width / text size in Confluence Roadmap plugin?

Thanks

Naama


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I saw this question come up the other day to, I think this means it is not. <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11444429>

I haven't played around with it much but it doesn't seem like it.

Here's what I found: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35511>


Tags: roadmap