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Forward in-app notification as email
Asked by Thorsten Twellmann:

I have a plugin that generates in-app notification in Confluence. Is it possible to forward these notifications also to an email address?


Answers:
author: Alexander Bondarev
body: Hello!

What plugin do you use to custom in-app notifications?

comments: author: Thorsten Twellmann
body: It was developed in-house


Tags: confluence-server

email

notification

server
Space Home Page
Asked by Libby White:

I created a KB space but it has no home page - I can't delete it and it doesn't find any of the other spaces/pages as the home page. I'm lost as to what to do?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@Libby White](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2832294)

In your global search, type one of the words in your space name. Your space will then appear in the quick results near the bottom.

Once you click the KB space name in search, it will take you to that space's home page.

**If an admin:** From here, you can click space tools / overview, and change the home page if needed.

- Jonathan

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: If your issue is more-so a new knowledge base *within* a space, then maybe it is still in draft and not published.

You can see your drafts from : **https://yourconfluenceurl/users/viewmydrafts.action**
Stop email notification on space level when creating page
Asked by martin sturzenegger:

When creating a new page on a confluence space, we don't want the subscribers to receive an email-notification. Please note, that this is just for one space only, as for all other spaces the default behaviour suits fine and should not be altered.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Email notification are only send, if the user configured it that way (User profile, Email settings). You might try to create the page with restrictions only to the author (View) \& later remove the restrictions.


Tags: confluence-server

notification

server
Is it possible to integrate Jira Service Desk Customer Portal inside Confluence?
Asked by Evgeny Klimov:

Hi all! We're actively using Jira SD and Confluence. Is it possible to make possible for customers write SD requests inside Confluence page without leaving to SD customer portal?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Evgeny and welcome to Community!

In theory, you could create a form within Confluence to them have it interface with JSD. You may also use Jira issue collectors to have form information created and sent in that method.

Ideally, though, you would want users heading over to their JSD portal to create issues but also see messages or status for their possibly pre-created issue. Accessing the portal also allows you to ensure users are not creating issues on the incorrect JSD project or accessing a KB they should not be seeing.

For more information about Jira issue collectors, please see [Using the issue collector](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Mitigation-for-Confluence-vulnerability-CVE-2019-3395/qaq-p/1044742).

I hope this provides some guidance in regards to accessing JSD within Confluence.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: jira-service-desk
Service Issues after Moving Home Directory
Asked by Iain:

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me. We originally had the confluence home directory on a drive but for various reasons we are required to move it to another. I followed the steps here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-home-and-other-important-directories-590259707.html>

But once I restart the service and try to navigate to confluence with the web browser I am unable to connect and the service seems to stop.

I'm not sure what the issue could be? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Iain


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

you could check:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Moving-Confluence-Home-to-another-drive/qaq-p/115745>

comments: author: Iain
body: Hi Jan,

I've followed this and pointed confluence to a folder that doesn't exist. It creates a new one and I've copied the files needed into the on it has made but still no luck.

This thread suggests that the TomCat service not running could be an issue but I can't see it in the services list. Do you know how I could check that?

Thanks for the reply!

Iain


author: Steve Thornhill
body: Did you move the content of the directory?

Is there any further information in the log when Confluence is starting up?

comments: author: Iain
body: Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply. I did move the contents and took into consideration replacing "\\" with "/" when updating the text document.

I think I've caused a bit of a red herring as I've managed to get the original drive back and replace it. However the service still is not responding making me think that it is actually I different issue that was caused by powering the server off.

Would you mind pointing me in the direction of the logs I should check for start-up issues and any suggestion to what may be wrong are very much appreciated.

Thanks again

Iain


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can I generate a PDF from a page that is in Draft stage?
Asked by Anand Rajaraman:

I have not published my page under a space and I still want to generate a PDF. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Christos Moysiadis
body: Hello [@Anand Rajaraman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2776824) ,

As i can see no!

But you could just publish it with restrictions. "Edit and View" only by you and then generate the pdf. Make any changes republish it and recreate the pdf. And so on....

Regards

CM

comments: author: Jared Brenner
body: Or just copy everything into a new page published in his personal space. No need to mess with permissions then.


author: Anand Rajaraman
body: Thank you, [@Christos Moysiadis](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1530187) so, want to confirm again that, I can still go back to my draft again (no restrictions/editing restricted) and start making my changes...and then publish and export to pdf?


author: Anand Rajaraman
body: [@Jared Brenner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2608000) thank you, this worked!!

comments: author: Jared Brenner
body: Glad you found something that worked for you!
Delete Space and Key from DB
Asked by Yogesh Mude:

Hi,

As I wanted to import a single space to a confluence server instance, whenever I tried to import it getting below error..

```
Import failed. Check your server logs for more information. com.atlassian.confluence.importexport.ImportExportException: Unable to complete import: Error while importing backup: org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: could not execute statement
```

So i tried to delete the space from DB, but I'm unable to do...

```
ERROR: update or delete on table "spaces" violates foreign key constraint "fklmweu06nft59g7mw1i1myorys" on table "content"
DETAIL: Key (spaceid)=(31391745) is still referenced from table "content".
********** Error **********

ERROR: update or delete on table "spaces" violates foreign key constraint "fklmweu06nft59g7mw1i1myorys" on table "content"
SQL state: 23503
Detail: Key (spaceid)=(31391745) is still referenced from table "content".
```


Answers:
author: Steve Thornhill
body: Is the original space still active? If so, delete that through Confluence first.

Alternatively, if you are not too bothered by the actual Key on the import you can update this in the xml file before importing.

Deleting from the database should be avoided if possible due to the links between tables as you have seen.

comments: author: Yogesh Mude
body: Hi [@Steve Thornhill](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/41833)

Thanks for the response.

I have followed the below Atlassian article and the problem has been resolved.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/importing-a-space-fails-with-could-not-execute-statement-error-in-confluence-server-949242294.html>


Tags: confluence-administration
file???
Asked by ?????:

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file://server1/solution/??????/FY2018/????/20180315_??????????????????????????/??????????????.pptx


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: ???????????????????

* **file://servername/folder/subfolder/filename.docx**

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(Supplied by google translate)

- Jonathan

comments: author: ?????
body: ??????????????

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Tags: language-ja
Something went wrong after loading the editor. Copy your unsaved changes and refresh the page to kee
Asked by PMO:

Getting this error message after clicking on the Create button from the page.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is something where the front-end of Confluence can't talk to the back-end, but it does not report on why.

I'm afraid we will need to see the errors in the log file to enable us to work out what the problem is!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence task list prompt label is uncorrect in Chinese
Asked by CMJIRA:

Hi\~

Confluence task list prompt lable is displayed uncorrectly in Chinese.And it was found to exist in multiple versions?include version 6.11.2?from version 6.13 before version 6.14.2.

Please help to fix this problem,thank you.![task list.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/49921iD40700723AADFBBB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "task list.jpg")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

I was able to replicate the issue within a clean instance. After that, I went ahead and filed a bug report about this situation.

You can check the report here:

**[CONFSERVER-58117 \| Changing instance language to Chinese breaks tool tip for tasks](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58117)**

Currently, the best course of action would be to vote and watch the report. Voting increases the issue visibility and watching will keep you up to date with everything!

You can check more information about this process here:

**[Atlassian Server Bug Fix Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-server-bug-fix-policy-201294573.html)**

Looking forward to your reply!


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to apply editing restrictions to a page's children pages?
Asked by Yan Pan:

I want to apply editing restrictions to a page and all its children, but only the parent page can be restricted.

I read the manual as shown below, it seems that the children pages cannot be restricted? It's not reasonable.

![1.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/49920iB213C987FE29B28E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "1.png")


Answers:
author: Tanya Gordon
body: Hi,

There is an answer on this page

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Making-edit-restrictions-inherited/qaq-p/889917>

Hope it helps :-)

Tanya

comments: author: Yan Pan
body: Thanks a lot. But I also find this post, and I don't quite understand how to do it...
Does Confluence have a bulletin board?
Asked by zhangwei:

Does Confluence have a bulletin board?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Zhangwei,

Thank you for reaching out on Community!

Could you let me know what you need specifically in a bulletin board? I could suggest a few features or add-ons for you can tell us where you want this feature to be and what exactly it needs to do.

Regards,

Shannon
Is there any way I can pull "Mentioned In" link using a JIRA Macro?
Asked by AB:

Pulling the "mentioned in" link in confluence macro. I tried adding "issue link" in the macro but it does not pulls the "mentioned in" links in the confluence doc.


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: [@AB](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2947321) any luck so far in doing that?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to collapse the sidebar on a mobile web browser (Confluence Cloud)
Asked by Pierre-Marc Giroux:

I have found many articles describing how you cannot configure the sidebar on Confluence Cloud and I have made my peace with that. Confluence's philosophy is that this should be in the end of the user. Fine.

How can the user collapse the sidebar on a mobile web browser? Our users do not use the Confluence Mobile App so we need a mobile web browser centric solution.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

If your users are accessing Confluence Cloud via a Mobile Browser with the site mobile version, the sidebar should look like this:

![Screen Shot 2019-04-01 at 17.35.43.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50193i8C2B3E98FDC7C7CC/image-dimensions/267x474?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-04-01 at 17.35.43.png")

Expanding and collapsing it can be done by clicking the menu represented by the three horizontal lines at the top.

However, if your users are using a mobile browser but using the Desktop Version of Confluence, the site might look like this:

**Expanded Sidebar:**

![Screen Shot 2019-04-01 at 17.32.05.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50194iD1DD5219A06BE04C/image-dimensions/251x449?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-04-01 at 17.32.05.png")

**Collapsed sidebar:**

![Screen Shot 2019-04-01 at 17.32.13.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50195iC5799DAFA2216BFD/image-dimensions/251x451?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-04-01 at 17.32.13.png")

In this case, for them to collapse and expand the bar, they need to touch (analogous to *clicking* it) the border of the sidebar, right at the line that separates it from the page itself. The line is highlighted in Blue in the first screenshot referring to the Cloud desktop view.

Looking forward to your reply!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Upgraded to 6.15.1 - SQL Errors - How do I revert back to 6.14.1?
Asked by Sean Aldrich:

We recently installed Confluence 6.14.1 using SQL server 2008 R2. There were no troubles reported and everything appeared to be working fine. There is now a lot of data entered into the system.

I recently installed the upgrade to 6.15.1 and it appeared at first to be working fine, but then we noticed issues with an SQL error about an invalid datatype in the logs and various functions were not working. In troubleshooting I noticed that SQL 2008 R2 has not been supported for some time. Since the previous version was working, we want to revert to that version to have it working while we plan for an SQL upgrade.

I have renamed the new folders and restored the zip file backups. It appears that the SQL database was never upgraded (as per the logs I mentioned above it says the schema could not be updated). I cannot find any instructions about how to revert a failed upgrade. Please advise.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There is no "revert" process - you have to go back to the backups you took before you upgraded.

comments: author: Ernie Jennings
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) Sounds great Nic, can you elaborate please? I need to revert back to a previous version. Can you provide a link or steps to this process?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It depends on what backups you took - an xml backup can be restored directly into a new empty system, or a database/file-system one can be restored over the top of a working empty Jira.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How can unlicensed users view the Site Home landing page as view only?
Asked by Joe de la Garza:

How can unlicensed users view the Site Home landing page as view only?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: In global permissions, allow "anonymous access" - people can then see Confluence without logging in.

comments: author: Joe de la Garza
body: When unlicensed users log in it says Permission Denied.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's correct, if a user is not licenced, Confluence will deny them permission to do anything.

If you enable anonymous access, the users do not need to log in.


author: Joe de la Garza
body: That also includes the ability to just view?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, although the global anonymous permission only allows them into the general stuff - dashboard, search etc.

If you want them to see spaces, you will also need to enable anonymous access for each space they should see.
How to restrict user while enter data in column of a table ?
Asked by Rajat Awasthi:

HI All,

I have a scenario, i want to restrict user to enter a word only without any special characters \& leading spaces in column of a table. Is there any way to achieve this?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Rajat and welcome to the Community,

To ensure I have a full understanding of what you're wanting to accomplish. You're wanting to have a Confluence page with a table within it, users are only allowed to insert specific character types within certain columns or rows of the said table.

If you're using the native tables within Confluence this may not be possible (depending on if you're using Confluence cloud vs server).

Alternatively, if you using Confluence server and you have SQL macros within, you can then create Confluence as the interface to the SQL table using a SQL macro. This option would be rather complex but would easily allow you to control data entry to allow only specific characters.

To understand a bit more of why you require this process, could you give us details of what is needing to be controlled or avoided?

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: atl-adm
rest api basic authorization via java http.client stopped working when upgrading confluence
Asked by Javier Perez:

We've upgraded from confluence 6.6 to 6.15.1

**Issue**

We're using following code to run REST API calls within a java app

```
String cred = java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(("usr:passwd").getBytes());
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(restApiQuery);
httpget.addHeader("Authorization: Basic ", cred);
httpclient.execute(httpget);
```

This used to work in 6.6, however this is throwing an error in 6.15.1

```
<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>HTTP Status 500 \u2013 Internal Server Error</title><style type="text/css">h1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} h2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} h3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} body {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} b {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} p {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;} a {color:black;} a.name {color:black;} .line {height:1px;background-color:#525D76;border:none;}</style></head><body><h1>HTTP Status 500 \u2013 Internal Server Error</h1><hr class="line" /><p><b>Type</b> Exception Report</p><p><b>Message</b> Illegal base64 character 3a</p><p><b>Description</b> The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.</p><p><b>Exception</b></p><pre>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal base64 character 3a
java.util.Base64$Decoder.decode0(Base64.java:714)
java.util.Base64$Decoder.decode(Base64.java:526)
java.util.Base64$Decoder.decode(Base64.java:549)
com.atlassian.seraph.util.SecurityUtils.decodeBasicAuthorizationCredentials(SecurityUtils.java:49)
com.atlassian.seraph.auth.DefaultAuthenticator.getUserFromBasicAuthentication(DefaultAuthenticator.java:510)
com.atlassian.crowd.integration.seraph.CrowdAuthenticator.checkAuthenticated(CrowdAuthenticator.java:296)
com.atlassian.crowd.integration.seraph.CrowdAuthenticator.getUser(CrowdAuthenticator.java:397)
com.atlassian.confluence.user.ConfluenceCrowdSSOAuthenticator.lambda$getUser$3(ConfluenceCrowdSSOAuthenticator.java:102)
....
```

I've notice that the encoding includes character *=* which apparently is for padding (for the sake of testing I also encoded user:passwd with *withoutPadding*, with no effect

**Question**

How to fix this?


Answers:
author: Javier Perez
body: The header was badly constructed, it should be

```
httpget.addHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + cred);
```


Tags: confluence-development
Deleted Confluence Space
Asked by Khalid El Ghazouani:

Hello

I'm a space admin and i just deleted a space according to the site admin. I didn't even noticed a warning. Is there a way/tool/hint to restore the space without restoring all the site in a separate storage ? This contans all the team documentation

Thank you


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Khalid,

You can't recover the space unless you'd taken a back up.

Victor

comments: author: Khalid El Ghazouani
body: Thank Victor

We have the backup but it will take a long time to restore all the site (with al the spaces) with 25000 user.

I was wondering if there is a way to restore my space individually

Thank you
Vlookups or charts from tables in confluence
Asked by Govind Gurrala:

Hello All: Please let me know if we can create a vlookup or graph/chart with the data from the tables on a confluence page. are they are any tools/apps that could help me achieve this?


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: There is a [Table Transformer](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Table+Transformer+macro) that can [lookup tables](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Default+automatic+presets#Defaultautomaticpresets-Lookuptablespreset). It supports SQL queries as well. This macro is shipped with [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app.


author: Govind Gurrala
body: Thanks Patrick. That's exactly what I am looking for.

does anyone know if there is an free app available?


author: Patrick Cleary
body: Would something like Play SQL Spreadsheets work for you? [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211031/play-sql-spreadsheets-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview\&_ga=2.88166043.1663563348.1553518500-1103596815.1552328155](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211031/play-sql-spreadsheets-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview&_ga=2.88166043.1663563348.1553518500-1103596815.1552328155)

Or Play SQL Base: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211703/play-sql-base?hosting=server\&tab=overview\&_ga=2.89203995.1663563348.1553518500-1103596815.1552328155](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211703/play-sql-base?hosting=server&tab=overview&_ga=2.89203995.1663563348.1553518500-1103596815.1552328155)
Can I display a separate page on my page as a tab?
Asked by FG:

Hi All:

Looking for some guidance as to how I could display a separate page as a tab on my own page.

Details:

- 'Page X' is a separate page from my own, created and maintained by another team

- I don't want to use Childtabs because I would have to manually make all edits from "Page X" in "Childtab Page X"

- Likewise, the creators of "Page X" don't want to make edits on their page, then again in "Childtab Page X"

- I'm hoping to display "Page X" as a tab on my page, so that when there's a change to "Page X", it's automatically captured in the content on my tab so there's no duplicate effort

Is there a way to do this? I hope this makes sense and can provide extra clarity as needed.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Hi [@FG](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2944587) ,

If you are open to a FREE add-on, the UI Tabs which is included in **RefinedWiki's** [Refined Toolkit](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211136/refined-toolkit-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) would be your tabs on the page. You can then use the **include page macro** to display pages in tabs.

Example:

![a.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/49836i5B07C804872FE8DA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "a.jpg")

![b.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/49837i0163DED3B12E5B1F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "b.jpg")

Regards,

Jonathan


Tags: tab