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Confluence Source Editor: Hide Table Borders
Asked by IK:

I changed the Table Border to "0" in the Confluence Source Editor

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Why is there no effect?

Please don't tell me that I need a plugin to simply not display a table border!

This needed for simple formatting, guys....


Answers:
author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: It seams, that you will be only sucessful, when you change the border in every cell:

\<table\>  
\<tbody\>  
\<tr\>  
\<td style="border: 0.0px;"\>test \</td\>  
\<td style="border: 0.0px;"\>test \</td\>  
\</tr\>  
\<tr\>  
\<td style="border: 0.0px;"\>test \</td\>  
\<td style="border: 0.0px;"\>test \</td\>  
\</tr\>  
\</tbody\>  
\</table\>

Or you can change the css settings for all tables in the wiki content within a space:

space-tools -\> look \& feel -\> stylesheets:

.wiki-content td { border:0; }  
.wiki-content th { border:0; }

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: I think you're right Christina. I had a problem with a table earlier today (which was being rendered with no borders). When I looked at the HTML, all of the cells in that table had the same piece of code. When I removed it all, the table rendered properly. Cheers.
Creating a space takes me to "page not found"
Asked by Alberto Blanch:

Every time and with every link available to create a space it takes me to the first page of writing the name of the new space, but when I click "create" again, it takes me to a "Page not found" page.

I appreciate the help ;-)


Answers:
author: Alberto Blanch
body: Ok, I found the problem: Space logo too big


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Obtaining PDF attachment as an address to reference
Asked by Beren Harris:

Hello.

I have an OnDemand page that has the attachment macro used to see a list of documents \& pdfs saved. If i try to view one of the PDF's i can see the address has the file name within in, like below:

[https://MySite.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/worddav/preview.action?fileName=DocumentName.pdf\&pageId=3112995](https://MySite.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/worddav/preview.action?fileName=DocumentName.pdf&pageId=3112995)

However if i try to grab the address to reference somewhere else, i only get a link to the page containing the attachment. Is there a way i can refence the actual attachment as i am sure i can do this with my downloaded version of confluence?

Thanks,  
Beren


Answers:
author: Beren Harris
body: I have worked it out.

If you want to link (reference) to a page - you can simple highlight the entire address field and paste on that other page. This will also change the links name to the referenced page name.

If you want to link (reference) a specific attachement on another page. View the attachment and then copy the entire address. On the page you wish to reference from, write some text \& create a web link over that text to the attachments address.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
link images
Asked by val clarke:

How do I like an image to a different page?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: When inserting the image, click Link, and then either select "Search" on the left side of the insert dialog or "Web Link" if you want the link to go outside of Confluence.

If the image is already in the page, edit the page and click on the image. Then click Link.

hth


author: val clarke
body: I would like to insert a image and then link it to another page
confluence
Asked by Sandra Louie:

How do I restrict page modification notifications to just the page owner and allow everyone to view the page?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Sandra,

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Unfortunenately, this feature is not yet available in the Confluence. Therefore I have created a feature request for you here <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29996> to alert our developer about this. Please comment and vote for the feature request as those are the few factor that affect the next feature release based on [Atlassian New Feature Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy).

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Hope this helps.  

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa


Tags: notification

page
What is the Advanced Search Macro?
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

Adding a clarification:

The advanced search plugin installs a number of macros, including one called advanced-search. I can't find any information on what that macro does. We've had no real trouble using the other macros in the plugin as described in the documentation, but the presense of that macro confuses people, since it is the obvious one to use -- I'd like to know what this particular macro is for. I know what the entire plugin is for. I believe Adaptavist needs to answer this question -- it seems like no one in the community knows the answer.

The original statement of the question:

In the macro browser (in 5.1.3) we show the Advanced Search macro. The Documentation link leads to the Advanced Search plugin, which makes sense, but the docs for the plugin (<http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/ASP/Advanced+Search+Documentation>) don't mention any macro by the name "Advanced Search"-- that's the name of the plugin, not any particular macro. So what is this macro for? What is the name used for it in the documentation?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I realized that this macro is used with an XML configuration file. There is an example of that in the documentation.


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: With this plugin you are able to define customized search forms and search results.

This is a very simple example:

First, you need the Search form macro and the search result macro. In the search macro, you have to place:

```
* search-input type=text match=query
* search-submit:Search
```

The documentationon adaptavist shows only wiki syntax. To use this in the confluence editor, take the macro names in the curly brakets.

<http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/ASP/Advanced+Search+Documentation>

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Sorry, I think you misunderstood the question: I know what the advanced search PLUGIN is, and I can read the documentation to get the info about search-input and search-submit. What the docs don't tell me is what the advanced-search macro does. That particular macro is not listed with the others in the documentation. (I just saw that there is one example using the advanced-search macro and an ID with a config script, but nothing directly saying what this macro does. Perhaps it puts up a search box that is conforms to the config script, but I'm just guessing, and I don't see anything saying what to do with the config script.)


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.advancedsearch
"Page Not Found" when creating a new Space
Asked by Tom Goering:

I have access to the "Create Space" controls, but when I click the Create button, I get Page Not Found. The space never shows up in the list.

I have both administrator and user permissions, and it says I can both create and view spaces.


Answers:
author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hello Tom,

This is probably happening because of a recent bug with Confluence OnDemand, this is the bug report: [CONF-29865](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29865)

I'll quote the avaliable workaround below:
>
> ### Workaround {#toc-hId-1477656005}
>
> Turn off the default space logo in Confluence Admin -\> Default Space Logo (the URL should be [https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/configuredefaultspacelogo.action](https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/configuredefaultspacelogo.action "Follow link")). This will allow spaces to be created.

Please add yourself as a watcher to that bug report in order to receieve updates when a permanent fixed is deployed.

Hope it helps!

Regards,  
Marlon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to make labels mandatory in confluence?
Asked by Jan Mueller:

I'm looking for a way to make labels mandatory when creating or updating a confluence page.   
The requirement is to have at least 3 labels per page.

How would I best achieve it?


Answers:
author: Vinay
body: Hello,

In Admin section you can include custom HTML. I guess you can include script tag in that HTML to achive this.

Please refer : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+JavaScript+in+Confluence>

Hope this helps.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I would start by trying it in the HTML header of the create page action. I haven't thought this through yet, but there's probably a way to trigger the add label function off of the create page function.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I was thinking that you could do it on page load. You can add jQuery to the header of the HTML page. Maybe you can add labels directly, or maybe you can do it with a REST call from jQuery. Sorry I don't have time to look into it further, but maybe someone else can chime in that might have done this before.

comments: author: Jan Mueller
body: Hello Matthew. I would trigger it when the user clicks on save or preview. But into **which file** would I write my jquery code into?


author: Jan Mueller
body: Hi Matthew, thanks for your reply. I was thinking about a plugin rather. If there is no plugin - where would I put my jquery code? Can you guide me into the right direction?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: If there were some logic for how users went about creating a page, then you could use some templates that contains some or all of the labels. This would be the quick/dirty solution and probably isn't applicable. The real solution would probably involve some heavy JS or JQuery lifting to enforce.

comments: author: Jan Mueller
body: Hi Matthew, thanks for your reply. I was thinking about a plugin rather. If there is no plugin - where would I put my jquery code? Can you guide me into the right direction?


Tags: confluence-administration

label
custom URL for OnDemand confluence wiki
Asked by Alex Fishman:

Hi I'd like [wiki.delectable.com](http://wiki.delectable.com) to point to my confluence instance. How do I set this up?


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: This is not supported in OnDemand. There is a feature request for custom domains at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-5311>

The best you can do at the moment is set [wiki.delectable.com](http://wiki.delectable.com) to redirect to example.atlassian.net/wiki using your own web server infrastructure, but obviously this means the wiki will not be served from your domain and is little more than a shortcut URL.

comments: author: Alex Fishman
body: what a bummer!


author: Daniel Bartlett
body: s there any chance that this has been addressed now (2015?)....Fingers crossed!


author: Juan Manuel Garrido
body: +1 for this!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Force upgrade error
Asked by RubenR:

Force upgrade error:

* Upgrade failed with the exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: A site migration is currently in progress.. Check the log for details.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That usually means that you're running it twice. Not easy to tell though.

The advice it gives you is solid - you need to read the logs for more detail.


Tags: confluence-administration
Some parts of translates havent been display. Is there any think wrong?
Asked by Ale? La?ar:

Hi there,

I wrote many translate for plugins. But sometimes and something from one translation has been show as original, not translated... For example, i completely translate plugin from Adaptavist, but only few thinks are still in Eng... And the same is it with some plugins from atlassian ( for example notifications in workbox - Back to notifications). The name of parametr is ok, overything is correct, but sometime something stayed still untranslated. I watching Console in Chrome and there arent any warnings or errors... Please can you tell me what it could be?

Thank you, best regards

Ales Lanar


Answers:
author: Ale? La?ar
body: It depends on used properties and specific name. Best is download original translate and for others plugins try to find names in their xmls in jars.


Tags: confluence-administration
date localization
Asked by mehran haghani:

Hi,is there any way to convert date from Gregorian to solar date in confluence ?


Answers:
author: mehran haghani
body: page creation date , dates that show in recently updated tab , date in page history table and etc


author: mehran haghani
body: page creation date , dates that show in recently updated tab , date in page history table and etc  


author: Timothy
body: More context please. Where are you looking to convert these dates?


Tags: conversion

date

locale
How secure is Confluence?
Asked by Chris de Villiers:

Hi,

How secure are my data on Confluence? I don't mean from prying eyes. I mean secure from data loss.

Confluence is great for keeping track of project documentation, version control and other matters, but it would be disatrous to loose months of work if something went wrong. Somewhere it is said that one can dispense with on-line storage and even e-mail, because Confluence provides everything that's needed.

But does it offer backup? Is there a way to synchronize Confluence files to my computer?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Confluence has its own backup mechanism (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Site+Backup+and+Restore>). The rest is up to you. Whether you want to do a full CONF_HOME backup, database backup, VM backup, etc.


Tags: backup

data

security
Separate out comma-separated values in usermacro parameter input
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

Hi guys,

I have a user macro that has a number of text inputs which users can put issue numbers in that link to an old, out-of-date issue tracking software (before we got JIRA!). Each input is then generated into a link or simply displayed depending on the viewing user's permissions.

However, this very inefficient. Ideally I would like a single text input where users could input issue numbers separated by commas and the macro would generate these links for each value.

Is it possible to build an array and then do a #foreach for each of these values? Does VTL understand that these values are separated? Is there another way?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Are you trying to do something like this?

```
## Macro title: Split Test## Macro has a body: Y or N## Body processing: Selected body processing option## Output: Selected output option#### Developed by: Matthew J. Horn## Date created: 07/15/13## Installed by: Matthew J. Horn ## This macro takes a comma separated list and splits them out in a bulleted list## @param List:title=Name|type=string|required=true|desc=Comma Separated List#set( $myList = $paramList.split(","))&lt;ul&gt;#foreach( $item in $myList )    &lt;li&gt;$item&lt;/li&gt;#end&lt;/ul&gt;
```

comments: author: Steve Goldberg
body: Matthew Horn saves the day again! Cheers.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Happy to help. You giving another lightning talk at the atlassian conference this year?


author: Steve Goldberg
body: I thought about it but couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to talk about. So I won't be going. Sadly, I think macros are an under-represented part of Confluence and wish there were some talks about them. Looking at the list I couldn't see any.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I'd love to go, but couldn't get the budget approved this year. Maybe next year... :(


Tags: confluence-administration

user-macro
release notes using {jiraissue}
Asked by Alex Perez:

Hello folks,

Any trick to have show customfields with the {jiraissue} macro? I want to embed the "release notes" report into confluence, and the developers are using a custom field to store the error description.

The out of the box macro only show the default internal jira fields. Is there any extended jiraissues macro that allows this?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Just use the custom field name in the parameter list.

comments: author: Alex Perez
body: It worked!

But i dont know why when I was inserting the jiraissues macro, confluence told me that only works with key, title, priority .... IMO the description is outdated and lead me to confusion ..

Thanks!


Tags: jira

release-note
Tags/Labels in child pages
Asked by Pablo Portalo:

Hello,

How can I put the same labels to all the children pages of one root page? It's possible?

Thanks,

Pablo


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Pablo, currently Confluence does not have such feature(there is a [request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17373) for such), however you can use the [CLI Add On](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface) with the [addLabel](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation) command to bulk add labels to a given page.

Hope it helps!
How can I make sure that my page is first found when colleagues search confluence
Asked by Edith van der Meij:

All teams are using the same tool, so you will get lots of hits when searching. But if colleagues are looking for specific information about this tool, then page containing this must be on the top.

How can i achieve that?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Edith, you can use a set of [labels](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Labels) to mark the pages and use them to [retrieve the content](Syntax-Searchingforlabels) when searching.

comments: author: RPT Admin
body: Depends which version of Confluence you're using. Labels are not indexed using 5.2.3. See discussion [here](/questions/200557/labels-in-search-confluence-5-2-3)and bug report [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30410).

For clarity, you can still search labels using 5.2.3, but only using a specific labels search, such as "labelText:foo". But adding labels in 5.2.3 does nothing to affect general search results.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Two things:

1. There are several criteria that affect where your page appears in the results. So it might vary from day to day depending on the activity (or not) that your page has experienced.

2. There is a plugin that you can use to force a page to be higher in the results, possibly even making it No 1. Have a look in the marketplace for this. I don't have time to do it now. Sorry. :)

Cheers.
Confluence and ZEN foundation
Asked by JEB:

Odd question but do you need CSS or Javascript experience to use ZEN Foundation. Have had a look at Stepstone and it "appears" that if is a little like the old Microsoft Frontpage in that everything is there for you, all you need to do is change your colours, load your images and insert your content. I may be wrong, but any help would be good. At present, we have the "out of the box" version of Confluence 4.3.6. Have been told Refined Wiki is the best add on to put in the features we are after (intranet feel to our design) but you need to have staff experienced in CSS/Javascript/HTML for this and we are trying to get away from reliance on programmers for our intranet. Any help is appreciated.


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: ZEN does have a built in designer to do a lot of the stuff (although you can still customize with css/javascript)[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php)

Take a look at <http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Brand+Designer+Tour>

However, from a performance / reliability / stability perspective ZEN has been more problematic - bugs, crashes, issues, etc...


Tags: confluence-administration
Find pages based on when they were last viewed
Asked by Reece Fenwick:

I am trying to filter pages based on the last time they were used.   

Are there any SQL queries or plugins that will allow me to find all pages that were last viewed in say 2010.

I'm not sure of what data there is to get this result, or if it is even possible. So any help is appreciated.  

Thanks


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Reece,

Have you checked out the usage stats add-on?

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.ext.usage>


author: Midori
body: The [Archiving Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) does this (and many others to find the noise in your wiki content) for you: **[Page view tracking for Confluence pages](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-view-tracking)**
Confluence adding users
Asked by Brian Lupo:

I have a team member that is in my Jira project, but I can't add him to Confluence projects. How do you do that?


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: In OnDemand, access is managed in a couple of ways. First, the user must have Application Access, which defines a license seat, in order to use the product. Once you've provided the user access to the application, you'll need to make sure your permissions are setup correctly.

See the documentation at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+application+access> for providing Application Access, and refer to [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+Site-Wide+Permissions+and+Groups](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+Site-Wide+Permissions+and+Groups%20)for details on managing the permissions in Confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence: How can I define a table were all columns have equal width?
Asked by Geert Truyen:

When I insert a table, the size of the different columns widths always move with length of the text.

I would like to be able to insert (clean looking) tables where the columns have equal (or self-defined) widths.

Thanks for your ideas.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [How to control table column width](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/How+to+control+table+column+width)

comments: author: Geert Truyen
body: Thank you, Bob.

I had not yet discovered this plugin.