youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How do you 'drag and drop' from Microsoft Outlook into Confluence?
Asked by Andrew Perry:

I can drag and drop the e-mail onto the desktop and then drag and drop that into Confluence, but I can't drag and drop directly.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi all,

<br />

Just for your information, feature request is tracked in [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse)<https://jira.atlassian.com/>therefore you will not see any activity regarding this feature in Atlassian Answer.

<br />

You might be interested in voting this feature request [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28812)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28812>raised in JAC which is exactly the same feature mentioned in here.

<br />

Feel free to comment and watch the bug for the latest update on the feature progress.

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


author: J?rgen V?hringer
body: had this been followed up upon at all?


author: Fabrizio Galletti
body: Would be a nice features
Is there a way to render indirect sources as confluence pages?
Asked by Simon Hardy-Francis:

I'm dreaming about something like this embedded on a page: {render:http://example.com/myurl/somefile.txt}

The idea is that I have some source file accessible via http which contains confluence markup. It might be in github and part of some source code, or it might be a dynamically generated report from some non-confluence automation. Either way I'd like confluence to read the url and use the markup read to replace the {render:http://example.com/myurl/somefile.txt} macro.

Does such a macro already exist?


Answers:
author: David Peterson
body: I'm not aware of anything either, although it would be a handy plugin to integrate with the Reporting plugin. You could write one which had a Supplier that would load the provided URL, and load it as text. Eg:

{report-info:url:"http://blah/blah.txt" \> resource:as text\|render=true}

Wouldn't be that difficult to write, although it could be considered a bit of a security risk...

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Security is handled for csv and others using [Macro Security Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CMSP), so that can be covered. It would be pretty simple to add if only there was some spare time :).


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: No, not that I am aware of. But there are similar examples, for instance the [CSV Macro](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/TBL/CSV+Macro "CSV Macro") can get CSV data from a url. You can also use the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) to copy external content into Confluence pages.
Installation/Crowd/DB Import issues with Confluence 4
Asked by Wen Batiz-Vegas:

Fresh install of CentOS 5.6, with Confluence 4.0 installed. Once the initial configuration is completed, and Crowd is connected to my local MS AD server, it synchronizes fine. After synchronization, I imported my existing confluence 3.x backup into Confluence and I immediately get locked out of the application. No username will allow login, not even admin.

Blowing away the old installation, db, and whatnot allows me to get back in for configuration, but that's all I can do.

Notes:

My old Confluence server is in a different environment, and we are connecting to a different AD server, if that matters.

Does anybody see an obvious problem here?


Answers:
author: Ryan
body: Hi Wen, have you previously tried updating to Confluence 3.5 before going to 4.0?

Alternatively, have you lodged a support request for this?

comments: author: Wen Batiz-Vegas
body: Hi Ryan,

No, we have not upgraded to 3.5 first. The goal was to invest little effort in getting off of the old server and onto the new one.

I will lodge a support request if I can't figure this out, or I might just upgrade the existing instance of COnfluence to see how it behaves.


author: Jim McCaskey
body: Just FYI. According to the below link, you MUST upgrade to 3.5 first. Thats the way I have interpreted the documentation anyway.

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Release+Notes#Confluence40ReleaseNotes-ReleaseNotices>


author: Wen Batiz-Vegas
body: That was not mentioned in the 4.0 upgrade info that I reviewed, and might be the missing link.

Thank you for pointing that out.


author: Wen Batiz-Vegas
body: By the way, do you know where to find the 3.5 bin file? I don't see a collection of prior releases here on your site.
If I were to upgrade to Confluence 4, is there a solution for forms as provided by scaffolding?
Asked by howard tiersky:

Or at this point in time is there not yet a plugin that provides forms?

If not does anyone know when we might be seeing an upgraded Scaffold that works with 4.0?


Answers:
author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Hi Howard,

we have release Scroll Wiki Forms EAP (early access program) yesterday. Status-wise this means the forms work quite stable on Chrome and Safari and should be ready for testing. Firefox and IE are working ok.

Overview and short Video: <http://wiki.k15t.com/display/en/Scroll-Wiki-Forms-for-Confluence-Overview>

Documentation: <http://wiki.k15t.com/display/FORMS>

Request free 30-day eval license: <http://wiki.k15t.com/x/XoAJAQ>

Best Regards,  
-Stefan

comments: author: howard tiersky
body: stefan-

looks interesting and seems similar to scaffolding. 2 questions for you - first, any advantages to this over scaffolding or this is basically a version of scaffolding that works in c4? Does it work with tempaltes the same as scaffolding? (live update?)

Also, is there a "reporting" side to this tool or we'd still need to wait for a c4 version of reporting

thx!


author: Fabian Lopez
body: Stefan,

Is there a way to import existing informaiton entered in live template to your Scroll wiki form?


author: Robert Castaneda[ServiceRocket]
body: Scaffolding and Reporting are now released for Confluence 4.0! http://www.customware.net/blog/2012/04/scaffolding-4-0-has-been-released/


author: MattS
body: Scaffolding will be released for Confluence 4.x in the first quarter of 2012. The latest information will be posted at <http://www.customware.net/store/confluence/connectors/scaffolding_plugin.html>


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: You should perhaps watch this page: <http://community.customware.net/customware/topics/confluence_4_0>

Also, [Scroll Wiki Forms](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/563990) looks very promising.

comments: author: howard tiersky
body: Thx! Yes I like the video...is there anything more on Scroll Wiki? Like documentaton or a release date?


Tags: scaffolding
Confluence Update from 3.5.7 to 4.0: Database mirgration fails
Asked by Dennis Bayer:

I tried to update to 4.0 but in several tries I always end up in a failure like this. The first try ended up in "Contraint already exits: Bandana ..." So I did a revert to the old installation. Try #2 and #3 ended in a migration issue too (every time a different one raised).

Is this a known issue? At the moment I cannot find a hint in the documentation.

```
[atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeLauncherServletContextListener] contextInitialized Upgrade failed, application will not start: Upgrade task com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.upgradetask.ContentPermissionConstraintsUpgradeTask@6f4ea4a2 failed during the SCHEMA_UPGRADE phase due to: StatementCallback; bad SQL grammar [alter table CONTENT_PERM alter column CPS_ID set not null, add constraint cp_unique_user unique (CPS_ID, CP_TYPE, USERNAME), add constraint cp_unique_group unique (CPS_ID, CP_TYPE, GROUPNAME)]; nested exception is org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FEHLER: Relation ?cp_unique_user? existiert bereits
```


Answers:
author: Adam Laskowski
body: There is a known issue for SQL Server that causes upgrades to fail due to some exisitng database constraints. The bug is outlined here:

[CONF-23193](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23193)

The provided SQL queries in the workaround should allow you to complete your upgrade:

```
alter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_user;  alter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_group;
```

Since your upgrade failed, you'll still need to roll back to your backup before running the queries.

comments: author: Dennis Bayer
body: Hi,  
executing the given commands solved the issue. Confluence 4 is running. :) thx.

Nevertheless I had to execute an additional command:

```
alter table CONTENT_PERM_SET drop constraint cps_unique_type;
```


author: Mezzanotte
body: I had this bandana problems too.

What solved my problem is:

1. Do an upgrade from 3.5.7 to 3.5.9

2. Run the SQLs

```
alter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_user;alter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_group;alter table CONTENT_PERM_SET drop constraint cps_unique_type;
```

3. Do the upgrade to 4.0

Regards,

Mezza

```

```


author: Steffen Becker
body: We're running into the same Problem upgrading from 3.5.9. After the first failure we thought it might be a good idea to upgrade to 3.5.13 first an then going to 4.0. But the error allready occures when trying to upgrade from 3.5.9 to 3.5.13.

I can post the full log if it helps as there are some more errors in the eventlog

Regards

Steffen


author: HuseinA
body: That sounds you are hitting this new bug [CONF-23248](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23248). The current workaround is to run the following SQL queries before you re-run the upgrade:

```
delete from CONTENT_PERM where CPS_ID is null;delete from CONTENT_PERM_SET where CONTENT_ID is null;
```

comments: author: Dennis Bayer
body: Hi,  
I tried these queries too, but postgress reported that none rows were affected. Thx anyways for the quick response. :)
Updates on Confluence 4.0 Plugins - Announcements?
Asked by Rhyne Armstrong:

Let's start a message where we post the plugins that have been updated for 4.0. Our system is not deployable on 4.0 until several of the plugins are updated and I really don't want to have to search for each one every day to see when it is updated. So far, I don't know of any, but I do know that you should NOT upgrade if you are using Theme Builder. It hosed everything until I deactivated it.


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: This [Master Plugin List](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/masterlist) might be handy.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: The latest versions of these are compatible plugins...

* Adhoc Workflows
* Balsamiq
* Gliffy
* Google Analytics For Confluence
* Scroll Wiki Forms

There are many more, but not off the top of my head.

comments: author: Andrej Spisiak
body: The version 3.1.2 of Ad hoc workflows which is the latest available (as of Sep 20) is not compatible with 4.0. So where is the new one ???


author: howard tiersky
body: RedfinedWiki Original Theme works on 4.0 (there is a demo on their site).

What woudl be really great is if there were a place where plugin creators could notate what their intentions are-- do they plan to make it avail for 4? if so when (aprox)...
How are you recommended to edit global templates in confluence 4?
Asked by Kim Pilo:

The global templates seem to still be editable in only wiki markup and not the new rich text editor, is this correct?

In older versions, it was easy to make a page in a test-space for instance, and use the wiki markup code as a basis for the template, switching back and forth as you built it. Now that doesn't seem possible.

Are you supposed to just write wiki markup blind for the template? I rely on templates but right now I can't use it anymore without installing a confluence 3.5. Could anyone enlighten me on how to work with the new way?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: At the moment, page tempaltes remain in Wiki Markup. We hope to change this. We are tracking that feature request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11744> we hope to implement this over the next couple of releases. Stay tuned. You can watch/comment/vote on that issue to stay updated.
Is it possible to constrain values for date-data macro (scaffolding plugin)?
Asked by David Dube:

I'm wondering if there is an easy way to constrain the available options from minutes to be: 00,15,30,45 as opposed to 0-59.

Regards,

Dave


Answers:
author: David Peterson
body: Basically, not using the {date-data} macro. You could try adding a javascript query that removed the extra values in the drop down I guess, but it would have to be hardcoded manually. I'd suggest a User Macro...
Unsubscribing from daily summary email
Asked by David Sandberg:

I have users who do not wish to get the "Confluence Changes in the last 24 hours" emails. They have the "Subscribe to daily updates" box unchecked in their Profile / Settings / Email page, but they still get this particular email every day. Is there any way for a user to "opt out" of getting this email (short of removing their email address from their user account)?

We are running Conflence 3.4.5 at the moment ... if a newer version allows this or resolves a bug related to this, that would be useful information too.

Thanks!


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

It will disable all the updates, but, not sure if disable notify watchers too. Since Confluence doesn't have a option to completely toggle the Notify Watchers checkbox, the best workaround we can provide to you is to remove the "watchers" of the page or better than yet, you can make the checkbox unchecked by default:

1. [No Email Storm Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.noemailstorm) which says on the description: Get rid of barely noticeable "Minor change"/"Notify watchers" checkbox and use "Save \& Notify" and "Save" buttons.
2. You can try to apply the customization mentioned above:

Navigate to Confluence Admin \>\> Custom HTML  
Insert the following At the **End of the HEAD**:  

```
<script type="text/javascript">AJS.toInit(function () {  AJS.$('#notifyWatchers').attr('checked', false);});</script>
```

You can also add you vote on this [Feature Request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8276) to share your thoughts with Atlassian.

Cheers,

WZ

comments: author: David Sandberg
body: As I said in the original question, unchecking the "daily updates" box does NOT stop this particular daily email, and it is not associated with watched pages either.
No border around formatting macro's in Confluence 4.0
Asked by Egbert Jansen:

Hi,

I'm testing Confluence 4.0 and when using the formatting macro's like Info and Note, I don't see any border around these colored panels. I can see the borders in Confluence 3.5.

Am I doing something wrong?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Could you please post a screenshot?

comments: author: Egbert Jansen
body: I would like to, but how?  
How can I upload a screenshot?


author: Matt
body: Click on the Insert Image button in the toolbar of the editor.


author: Egbert Jansen
body: I'm sorry, but the picture is not on a website but on my local disk. So there is no url available.

How can I insert a picture which is on location "c:\\dump\\Confluence".


Tags: border
Upgrading Confluence 3.5.7 to 4
Asked by Izhar Ravid:

How do I upgrade my current online 3.5.7 version to 4?

Shouldn't this be a transparent transition, being an online product?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: If you're using a SaaS version, ask your supplier to upgrade.


author: Matt
body: Pklease follow the [Atlassian Hosted Upgrade Procedure](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/BIbmD).


author: Izhar Ravid
body: The link seems to be about upgrading a hosted environment. I am using the online (sass) version...


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Here is the documentation : <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence>

comments: author: Izhar Ravid
body: The link seems to be describing the hosted solution upgrade process. I am using the online (saas) version...


Tags: upgrade
Integration with Bizagi
Asked by Alessandro Queiroz:

Hi,

We are using Bizagi to document all the process in our company. Someone knows the best way to export Bizagi webpages to the Confluence?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Alessandro,

If you can export your pages from Bizagi in .HTML or as a Word page, then you can import into Confluence by this method:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+Into+Confluence>

This would be the best way to import content from your Bizagi, since actually we don't have a plugin that could perform some integration between these applications.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.


author: Mariya Halka
body: Are there any updates about the possibility to import xml or xpdl files from **Bizagi** into **Confluence**? Thanks in advance!


author: Daniel Amaral - Autoglass
body: And now? We have something new about **Bizagi** HTML publishing to **Confluence**?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not that I can find. I don't think there's enough interest for anyone to have written anything for it.
view whole page as wiki - Confluence 4.0
Asked by MASH Trust Atlassian ICT Team:

Hello,

I might be missing something here - but how do we now view the entire page as a wiki editor?

The issue I have is that I have two tables that I want to combine and a straight cut and paste of the tables only puts into the on column - I used to get around this by editing via the wiki markup view... but can't for the life of me see where to go for it...

Regards,

Grant


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Grant,

Starting in Confluence 4.\*, content in Confluence is no longer stored in wiki markup format, it is now stored in XHTML-based format, which is why you're not able to access the wiki markup tab.

You can still create content in wiki markup by selecting the wiki markup screen in *Insert \> Wiki Markup* while editing a page. Alternatively, you can make use of the [Source Editor plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor) that allows users to view and edit the underlying storage format for a Confluence page.

I also suggest that you take some time to read the [Confluence 4.0 Editor - What's Changed for Wiki Markup users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+What%27s+Changed+for+Wiki+Markup+Users) page that is ideal for people that were used with the wiki markup editor.

Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.

Cheers.
Not having much luck with Team Calendar
Asked by Travis Krempa:

A few issues I'm experiencing - When trying to import another calendar from an ical file it won't let me because of an issue with the time zone. Second issue is sometimes I click on the My Calendar link and the page just spins and spins. Any help would be appreciated.  

<br />

Thanks,  

<br />

Travis


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Travis,

Sounds like you might be hitting a new bug. You should raise a support case at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)

Sherif


author: Matt
body: What version of Team Calendars are you using? You might be experiencing one of these known issues:

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-152>

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-30>

comments: author: Travis Krempa
body: Matt,

Team Calendar Plugin version: 1.2.3  

Enterprise Wiki version: 3.5.9

I saw the workaround listed on teamcal-95 but I don't know which system to set? It looks like its already set on the confluence and before I export from outlook its already set as well. Any help would be appreciated.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Updated to 4.0 and editing of old pages has broken
Asked by Hannu S??skilahti:

I just updated to 4.0 and cant edit old pages. When I try to edit a page I can only see the header / title and if I press on enter I will get an error page with the following cause:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: The body of this ContentEntityObject ('my page name') was 'BodyType:WIKI' but was expected to be 'BodyType:XHTML'  
at com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject.getBodyContent(ContentEntityObject.java:169)

Any ideas where I should try to change the body type?

Best regards,  
Hannu / FIN


Answers:
author: Martin Loruenser
body: Look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML+Migration> under "Re-running Migration"

Martin

comments: author: Hannu S??skilahti
body: Thanx a lot, didn't find that article! Cheers.


Tags: markup
pagetreesearch macro redirects to the login page
Asked by Sue Hallwood:

When using the pagetreesearch macro on one of our clients wikis you are re-directed to the login page even though you are already logged in. Once you log in again you are presented with a search page.

Our client has 4 instances of confluence; two production wikis and 2 sandwikis which the other developer and I do all of our testing in.

The pagetreesearch macro works on both of the sandwikis and on one of the production wikis.

The page tree plugin installed on the wiki is the latest version and I already tried re-installing the plugin but the search still re-directs.

Could somebody help me trouble shoot this issue or direct me to any support issues that have already been created on this issue?

Thanks,

susan hallwood


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: This sometimes happens when the Confluence user session has (or appears to be) expired.

Pagetree will then redirect to the login page, but this site has a custom authenticator directing to an external login page.

First step would be to remove the custom authenticator and then troubleshoot.


author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Hrmm. I would check if the server base URL is set correctly, and that the URL that you are using to access Confluence matches the server base URL.

comments: author: Sue Hallwood
body: this is the base url: <http://74.213.178.249>

It re-directs you to the customized login page at:

<https://admin.fpsyip.com/_samWiki_lib/wikiLogin.php?os_destination=/plugins/pagetreesearch/pagetreesearch.action>

It should be going to:

<http://wiki.ymca.ca/display/submit/Facility>

Every instance of Confluence has a customized loggin page.

<br />


author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Hrmmm, this sounds like there is an intervention of a custom authenticator or a URL whitelist requirements...
Edit Excel problem - it doesn't work
Asked by Suzanne Wicks:

Using Confluence 3.5.6, Office Enterprise 2007 SP2, Windows XP V5 SP3 and IE 8.

The spreadsheet is embedded/attached to a page,

the edit document button is on the page and

after clicking shows the message warning me of unsafe files.

After that nothing happens.

Any ideas as to what is wrong?


Answers:
author: Ivar
body: We had the same problem as you do. An exact solution was never really provided, most likely it was due to a internal infrastructure issue.

The support case I had open with Atlassian support is not public available, but some links you can check out for indications:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Files+Opened+with+Office+Connector+Cannot+be+Saved>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8179>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/%27The+Internet+Address+...+Is+Not+Valid%27+Error+Message+Due+to+Corrupt+Ancestor+Table>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Performance+and+Stability+Issues+with+Office+Connector+1.6+or+1.7>

<http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/iis/13446/Unable-to-download-files-from-https-with-Internet-Explorer>
Error installing Confluence Evaluation 3.5.13
Asked by Neville Dowdall:

When I run the installation of Confluence Evaluation 3.5.13 setup, I get the following error message:

Error open file for writing:

C:\\Program Files\\Confluence Evaluation 3.5.13\\confluence.exe Click Abort to stop the installation......

Any idea what is wrong. I have downloaded the software twice and get the same error each time.


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Did you try running the installer as an administrator? Righ click on the EXE file and choose "Run as administrator"


Tags: install