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Time Zone Change - across all users
Asked by J Webb:

Is there an easy way to change the global settings in Confluence to reflect the same time zone for all users; without each individual user making the change within their preferences?


Answers:
author: AmrtaA
body: Hi there,

You can achieve that doing the following:

1. Stop Confluence

2. Locate \<confluence install-directory\>/bin/setenv.bat if you are using windows or \<confluence install-directory\>/bin/setenv.sh if you are using Linux.

3. Open the file in text editor

4. Locate set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% ....

5. Add -Duser.timezone=\<your timezone\> at the end of "set JAVAOPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% ..."

6. Change \<your timezone\> to your current timezone, for example GMT+3.

7. So that it will look like: set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% ... -Duser.timezone=GMT+3

8. Save the file

9. Start Confluence

Hope this information helps.

Kind Regards,

Amrta Faruqi
Is there a way to control the order of templates?
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

The title says it all. I think the actual need for the user who asked about this is to have a specific space template appear before other templates.


Answers:
author: Steve Thornhill
body: I don't think there is a simple way to do that. However, in the space permissions you could disable all the unwanted/un-needed templates, then add the template you require as a space template.

This would put it at least in the top 2/3 that appear.

I've not managed to turn "Blank Page" off yet.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Actually you can do this, have a look here: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Templates#WorkingwithTemplates-PromotingtemplatesintheCreatedialog)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Templates#WorkingwithTemplates-PromotingtemplatesintheCreatedialog>


Tags: template
Confluence Navigation "count of recent spaces
Asked by Alexander Franke:

Hi there,

is it possible to change the count (default is 5) of recent spaces located in the top navigation dropdown menu "spaces"?

Thanks for your answer.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi everyone,

I just happened upon this question while researching for another user. Having made a feature request, I thought I'd share it here in case there is interest.

* [CONFSERVER-55003](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55003)

It will help if you can vote on that request as well as comment there with your specific usage case.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Esther Wien
body: I'm afraid it's not (yet) possible without hacking.

The workaround of my colleagues and me is using the search bar. (Hotkey = / and start typing the name of the space and use the arrow keys and \<return\> to quickly select the space.)


author: Cesar Aguilar
body: anyone have an answer for this? Am wondering the same thing now
Link macro corrupts url every time. Any way to enforce stricter behaviour?
Asked by TenLeftFingers:

The original url starts with

```
jdbc:oracle:thin:@((
```

Some occurrances of character : get replaced with %3

Sometimes character ( gets reeplaced with %28

Linking is important because the url itself is long and doesn't suit wiki display. I want users to be able to right-click and copy it. Will this be possible with Confluence?-


Answers:
author: TenLeftFingers
body: Finally figured this out. The link macros don't work at all for this scenario but using the html macro allows me to use \<a href="my crazy url"\>.


Tags: link

url
Hide BlogPosts/Pages from administrators in confluence
Asked by Tim Schmidt:

Hey,

is it possible for users to make their blog-entries or pages only available for a specific group of users excluding the confluence-administrators?

The theory is that the admin should be able to see that there is a blog-entry but can't access to the content (only the titel).

Thanks for help!


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Tim,

By creating a restricted page to a certain group or individuals you'll be able to restrict it from confluence-admistrators but you can't just restrict the content and make the title visible. The whole page won't be available. Also, you can select who can see it, but not who can't.

Give it a try by going to Tools, Restrictions.

Cheers!

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I believe however, that an administartor could override these restrictions if they really wanted to.


author: Tim Schmidt
body: Thanks!

Is there a similar funktion for blog-posts?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Cannot access Remote Confluence Methods
Asked by Julian Hoch:

I have a hosted confluence instance, and when I try to access the WSDL on /rpc/soap-axis/confluenceservice-v2?wsdl (as described on [](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs#ConfluenceXML-RPCandSOAPAPIs-changelogChangelog)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs#ConfluenceXML-RPCandSOAPAPIs-changelogChangelog>), I get an error screen "We're down for maintenance". What could be the problem?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The site is down for maintenance. Usually returns in a few minutes.

comments: author: Julian Hoch
body: The site (<https://itssmp.atlassian.net/wiki/>) is not down. Only the RPC-URL shows this message (<https://itssmp.atlassian.net/rpc>).


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use: <https://itssmp.atlassian.net/wiki/rpc/soap-axis/confluenceservice-v2?wsdl>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to faster select macro parameters?
Asked by Arnold Sp?ing:

Is it possible to define user-define default parameter for macros?

How can use faster select a macro parameter without clicking the UI?

Use case:

A user frequently uses the "Cod block" macro. He always sets the "Syntax Highlighting" parameter to "Bash". But this always needs several clicks. The user wishes to get his macro prepared more easily and faster.


Answers:
author: Arnold Sp?ing
body: Based on the discussion before, the following solution can be suggested; thanks to all contibutors:

You can set macro parameters while typing in the wiki editor. Just type

**{** *macro name* **:** *parameter name* **=** *parameter value* **}**

for example

**{code:language=bash}**


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Dare I say: use wiki and **Insert markup**. :)

More seriously, for this particular case they can just type: **{code:bash}** and it will auto-create

comments: author: Arnold Sp?ing
body: Unfortunately not working on Confluence 5.1.5 :-(


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Sorry, you need to close with **}**


author: Arnold Sp?ing
body: Thanks Bob, that guides me to the correct solution:

You have to type

**{code:language=bash}**

in order to autocreate the macro.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Arnold,

I don't know how to do this programatically, but you could create a page that contains all the macros you want to use, and set up their parameters as required.

Then all you have to do is copy and paste them into the pages where you need them.

You might have to change one or two parameters to suit the page, but you could cut out quite a lot of the work.

Cheers.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Another possible approach is to write a User Macro that embeds the macro you want to use. You can pass params to it and possibly set defaults... I haven't looked into it yet, but I might give this a try.

And the nuclear option, of course, is to write your own user macro and set your params, but emulating existing ones can be especially hard with some of them.


author: Arnold Sp?ing
body: Thanks, Mick. That's an option indeed. However, not the most covenient (that means fast) solution.

I thought more about some settings, autocomplete, keyboard shortcuts or the like.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: No worries. :) As far as I know there isn't any way you can do these things from the keyboard. it might be possible to edit a macro so that it has several defaults automatically, but I wouldn't know how to do that.

It'd be good to find out though.

Cheers.
How to disable decimal values in confluence and display the total?
Asked by SKR:

Hi,

Can anyone guide me to change displaying of decimal values setting?

I will be displaying results from SQL and **would like to convert decimal values into Integer in confluence, but I do not want convert this using SQL**.

**I also would like to display total at the end of each column without using sql.**

I have tried by changing in general configuration under confluence admin but it doesn't make any difference so please let me know how to achive this?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You need to do that with SQL using the round function (for postgres) or equivalent for your database. Select the **Auto total row** (autoTotal) parameter to get a total row.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Yes, do it in your SQL statement. All major SQL databases have rounding functions.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

bob-swift

groovy

ms-sql
Why would I create a Knowledge Base vs. a Team Space
Asked by Dakotah North:

I am about to create a new space and I am confused whether or not I should create a Knowledge Base or a Team Space.

What are the fundamental differences between the two?

Why would I create one over the other?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Dakotah,

The fundamental difference is the Team aspect. In a Team Space there is also a great focus on your team and how to manage it. In The knowledge base there is only focus on presenting, searching and creating knowledge.

Ofcourse nothing prevents you from creating a Team Space and also use the page templates from a Knowledge Base Space. It's still a Confluence Space and it can be modified any way you want.

Best regards,

Peter
How to ask a question?
Asked by Bert Roos:

Yesterday, I tried to post a question, but that was considered spam. Then I tried to rephrase the question, but that still was considered spam.

What to do to get through that?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi Bert,

Messages that get flagged as spam go into a queue for manual approval before being posted. Give it a couple of days for us to get to it, and eventually it should be approved.

comments: author: Bert Roos
body: Thanks!

Honestly, I feel this period is really long.


author: Joe Clark
body: Thanks for the feedback.  
We know it's not ideal - we use an automated system to try and detect spam messages, and unfortunately it's not as good as a human at doing this, leading to the inevitable queue of "false positives" that need to get processed manually.  
Unfortunately Answers has become a prime target for certain spam attacks recently that have been so severe they've almost brought the site down on several occasions - we've had to choose this fairly draconian approach in order to keep the site operational.  
We are working on some better systems to fight the spam accounts and hopefully they will be operational in the next few weeks.  
Thanks for using Answers! :-)


author: Bert Roos
body: Thanks for your reaction!

One last thing: Even my reaction on which you're responding now was at first classified as spam, so I wonder whther you are classifying accounts as spam accounts. If so, can you mark me as safe?


author: Joe Clark
body: The system should eventually learn that your account is safe - in fact I have checked and your account should be fine now. Let me know if you continue to have problems with it, because then that may be a bug.

I don't want to go into the details of how this works, since 'security by obscurity' is a reasonable line of defence against the spammers at the moment. :-)


author: Bert Roos
body: Thanks! My previous comment wasn't considered spam, so it seems to work :)
Mount an attachment directory so when you save from your computer it will auto update confluence.
Asked by Jordan Willis:

Hi,

I'm a simple end user for confluence but I have access to our server etc...As I'm looking at how attachments are stored it seems to be a file type table in a sql db linked to the binary which is decoded when you want to download that attachment. It would be very useful for me as an end user to be able to 'mount' a directory where an attachment of a given page is. That way when I make corrections to a graph, chart or image and hit save, it will automatically reflect on confluence without having to go through the "remove -\> reupload -\> tag" business. This is usefull when you have hundreds of images on one page.

Is there a way to do this with any of the various APIs without a lot of fuss, or is this just too tall of an order?

Jordan


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You're in luck! It's built in. Look into the WebDav plugin for Confluence. You can interact with Confluence as if it were a file system structure. When you browse it via WebDav there will be a directory for each space you have access to and then a directory in each space for each page. Inside the page directories will be a file called {pagename}.txt that has the content for that page. Any other files in that directory are the page attachments. You can then open an attachment and edit it and it will save back to Confluence and it will still be versioned and everything.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence>

comments: author: Jordan Willis
body: Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for
Confluence multi line Page Footer
Asked by Michael Simon:

How can I add multiple lines to the footer of a PDF in Confluence? Version 5.3.4

Sample: (Note page number 1 of x) is also right aligned. I need the below left aligned.

Company Name  
Company Slogan


Answers:
author: Michael Simon
body: I've been able to get the lines to show up when doing a Space Operation PDF Export. But not when viewing a page and do PDF Export.


Tags: footer

page
Autofill Table using jquery
Asked by Mathew Perkins:

Good Day!  

I am attempting to autofill table information with names of other confluence pages.  
This will work in a synchronous state, so as soon as you add a new confluence page under a certain folder. Then the table on another page will update, with the new item and link to the new page. Is this doable through jquery?   

I have enabled the HTML through system addons, however I have been unable to get it to function. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: MarkC
body: Have you tried using a User Macro to pull in the children under a specific parent, then displaying that as a table?


Tags: auto-complete

html

java

jql

table
Cannot view any type of embedded video
Asked by Keith Hurley:

Hi there,

Currently I'm unable to properly view any type of .mov, .mp4 or other video that's been embedded into Confluence. Regardless of the browser I use, I get the ? QuickTime icon whenever I try to view a video. Both Chrome and Safari are unable to display the video. I've recently updated to Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) and definitely have all the necessary QuickTime plugins needed to play video.

Is this a browser issue or something to do with Confluence itself? Hosting videos through DropBox links is a pain! Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Keith Hurley
body: Yep - definitely a browser plugin issue with OS X 10.9. I tried loading a page with an embedded video in Chrome and got the cookie that blocks QuickTime plugin. Selected "Always Allow" and it now loads fine in all browsers.


Tags: video
Page Snippets in Confluence
Asked by Davin Studer:

Anybody know of a plugin that will allow for inserting snippets of markup into a page? A template or blueprint isn't really what I am looking for here. I have a page that will have a repeating block of content and being able to add another block via a snippet would be awesome. Maybe a plugin doesn't exists for this and I'll have to make one, but if one exists why re-invent the wheel? Thoughts? Thanks.


Answers:
author: David Simpson ? AppFusions ? v3
body: Hi Davin,

If you want page snippets, you could do worse than [PageSnippets? for Atlassian Confluence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCmMbNRHzuQ). It's something I've been working on to solve this precise problem.

PageSnippets works by taking an existing page template (global or space based) and inserting it into the page at the caret/cursor location.

Take a look at the video on YouTube. There's more details in the description.

Best wishes, David.


Tags: confluence-administration

snippet
When using Confluence with JIRA as User directory does the license must match?
Asked by Marconi:

When using Confluence with JIRA as User directory does the license must match? I have 500 users license in JIRA and would like a much smaller license ( 25 ) for the Confluence. Still in trial 2000 users in but don't know if it will let me use JIRA as user directory after the licence has been applied.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Marconi

The license of the JIRA and Confluence does not need to match even if you use JIRA as user directory.

<br />

The trick is to only provide 25 or less user from JIRA directory with Confluence **Can Use** global permission. This way, the license count is not exceeded.

<br />

Regards,

Jing Hwa

comments: author: Marconi
body: Hi Jing,

Thanks for the answer.


author: Lance Wong
body: what happens if the number of **can use** permissions exceeds the license? In our jira-as-directory setup, the jira-users group is given the **can use** permission. So when the \<license-max\> + 1 user is added to the jira-users group what happens in confluence?


Tags: confluence-administration
how to add confluence on-demand to my jira trial
Asked by Joshua Nickols:

I'm currently evaluating jira on-demand and I'd like to add confluence on-demand. How do I do this?


Answers:
author: AgentSmith
body: Check out our FAQ - How do I add applications and/or Add-ons?

[](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand#managingatlassianondemandsubscription-4)<https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand#managingatlassianondemandsubscription-4>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Rename blog for just one space
Asked by Jennifer H.:

Hi,

Is it possible to change the title "Blog" to something else just for one space in particular?

Aware that you can change this globally by modifying ConfluenceActionSupport.properties but just wanted to update the title for one space in particular.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: AER IT Procurement
body: so...in 2019...can we change the name of Blog per community?

comments: author: Kathryn Reddie
body: Me too ...

I would like each blog to have it's own name, like "The Times" for one space, and "BI Matters" for another.


author: Tibor Bal?zs
body: Well, this is a built in Feature of Confluence and I do not think they are working on adding this feature.

But, you could try a workaround:

Step 1: Hide the Blog from the Sidebar ([Customize your space](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/customize-your-space/) )

Step 2: Create a Space Shortcut to your Blog and add whatever name you would like :)


author: Alex Rudakov
body: +1. This feature would be useful


author: Tibor Bal?zs
body: Anyone found a solution for this?


author: Manuela Schwendener
body: +1


author: martinbreth
body: I wonder if someone else found solution for this.

comments: author: Ryuhei Nose
body: I'm also wondering if there was ever a solution for this?


Tags: blog
Are versions of a page automatically deleted over time?
Asked by Maurice Pasman:

We are hosting our own instance of Confluence (ver 5.2). We use versions to track the history of certain pages. Our security officer wants to know if old versions of a page are ever automatically removed (they should not!).


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it preserves them all.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Correct, even minor edits create a new entry in the database. Eventually, if your site is large enough and your pages are dynamic enough, you might want to start dumping version entries from the Confluence tables and back them up.


Tags: page-history
PDF Export
Asked by Sebastian:

How can i set a zero page-margin on the titlepage?

I work with the following code:  
`@page` `:first`  
`{`  
`margin-top: 0cm ``/* Top margin on first page 10cm */`  
`}`  
but nothing happens :(


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: @Sebastian:

I think you must add a "padding:0;".

Try with

```
@page :first {size:210mm 297mm;margin:0;padding:0;background:yellow;}
```

If the page is completely white the border/margin is gone. If not you will see a yellow border around the page.


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Sebastian,

have you already had a look at our [Scroll PDF Exporter](http://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-pdf-exporter/overview)? Our add-on offers lots of additional options to configure your export. You could have a look at one of our [blogposts](http://blog.k15t.com/2013/12/5-reasons-to-use-the-scroll-pdf-exporter) for further information.

Cheers,  
Nils


author: Sebastian
body: I would like a title page without margins.

but I still have a white border on every side, why![](../../upfiles/2014-01-17_13h04_56.png)

this ist my PDF Export Stylesheet:

```
@page{size:210mm 297mm;margin-top: 1cm;margin-bottom: 2cm;margin-left: 2cm;margin-right: 2cm;}@page :first {size:210mm 297mm;margin-top: 10cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left: 0cm;margin-right: 0cm;}.pagetitle{page-break-before: always;}.titlepageheader1{background-color: rgb(0,58,98);width:100%;height:3cm;}
```

and this is my PDF Space Export Title Page:

```
&lt;div class="titlepageheader"&gt;    &lt;div class="titlepageheader1"&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
```


author: Steffen Heller
body: I think there are some examples in the documentation.

If you don't get to grips with that you should try to describe what you want, what you did so far and in what form your results were not as expected. This way others can help you more easily.


author: Sebastian
body: Can you please give me a working example for "PDF Space Export Title Page" and "PDF Export Stylesheet"?


author: Steffen Heller
body: Your code is correct. If "nothing happens" something else must be wrong.
How to Exclude/Filter Out an Author from Recently Updated results.
Asked by Richard Boult:

As the "Librarian" for our newish Confluence 5.3.4 Wiki I am constantly tidying up, moving pages, adding/changing navigation bits of pages etc.

Consequenetly, my name swamps the Recently Updated macro results.

Is there any way to exclude a single author from the results, or exclude administrators from results? Any work around suggestions would be appreciated too.   

OR

Is there a way to show the last update (or "n" updates) by each user, so at least only one/few of my results shows up.


Answers:
author: Fred Bunting
body: Unfortunately, this apparently used to be a feature in the Recently Updated macro, but got dropped along the way.

There is a JIRA ticket for a feature request to add this back. I recommend adding your vote to <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20956>


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: There are two approaches to this that I can think of OTOMH:

SQL

User Macro

I would write a user macro to generate a list of recent updates. The Page object has a getLastModifier() method that you could use: maybe build a List of contributors, and then walk the tree of pages to get a count of pages that the user was the last modifier for. Spit out a table of users and the # of pages they updated, with a link to drill down into which pages the user was the last modifier for.

Not trivial, but not beyond the realm of doing by a moderately good Confluence admin. Get crackin'!


Tags: confluence-administration

recently-updated