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traceability confluence jira
Asked by Robin Peters:

Hey folks,

I updated my Jira to v6.1.7 and Confluence to v5.4.1.  
Now I linked them in a trusted communication.

But when I create an issue on an old page, I won't get the new Jira Button in top of the page where the status of all linked issues should be collected. When I create a new space and insert an issue there, the button appears.

How can I get the button on old pages?

Regards,

Robin


Answers:
author: Robin Peters
body: This was a problem with the documentation theme we had earlier. we disabled it the system app-ons without changing the theme in all spaces used it.

confluence changed to "Global Look and feel" and all was fine. excluding the representation of the jira issues, the paper clip and the lock (attachments/restrictions).

I enabled the Documentation Theme, changed all spaces manually to Global Look and Feel and now the Jira Issue Button is always visible.
Calendar Macro - how to change colors
Asked by Humberto Gomes:

I'm creating a Confluence page with A Calendar (macro).

Inside this Calendar i added 5 events from JIRA ISSUE DATES.

Now I need to choose the color for each event.

I can not find this option. By default this created 2 blues, 2 greens and 1 gray.

How can i put like:

1 - blue

1 - red

1 - Green

1 - Orange

1 yellow

?


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

I believe that you are looking for this feature: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-364)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-364>

It wasn't fixed yet, but I recommend to watch and vote the feature to increase the chance of being implemented in the future.

Regards,

Rodrigo
Wiki - Confluence
Asked by Michael Hitthaler:

Hey,

is there a possibility in confluence wiki that i (admin) can choose a user who must check every fexp how-to, explanation text.. for all the user in confluence bevor it gets online.

it should be so that there is no spam or bad content in confluence and a choosen person decides which things are getting online.


Answers:
author: Michael Hitthaler
body: the [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow>looks good i will test it

thank you


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: What you need is a wiki gardener. But his job is to work after content is created. Normally you don't use workflows in a wiki, as long you use it as wiki and not in traditional CMS-style. I would recommend this book: <http://www.amazon.com/Wikipatterns-Stewart-Mader/dp/0470223626>

If you really want some workflows, take a look on [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow>that should bring you exactly what you asked for.


author: Michael Hitthaler
body: /push
Embeding videos in Confluence 5.1 that works in major browsers
Asked by Carlos Reyes:

G'Day Confluence gurus,

I am looking for a solution (it can be a paid plugin) that allows me to embed my own wmv video (or any other major format) in Confluence 5.1.

I tried the Atlassian multimedia macro and the wmv file does not work in Firefox/Chrome only in IE.

Is any third party plugin that allows me to embed my own wmv videos? or there is a better video format?

Using youtube or vimeo is discarded as my client wants to keep the source video in-house

I appreciate any suggestion and/or help


Answers:
author: Carlos Reyes
body: Thanks Patrice,

I notice that mp4 works but I can not size it. Do you know of any third party plugin (no mather if it is paid) that where helps the handling of video files in Confluence.

Regards

Carlos


author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi Carlos,

This bug (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27581>) causes no WMV files can be played in Confluence page.

Regards,  
Samuel


Tags: confluence-administration
Looking for a solution to provide a weighted scoring system
Asked by Chris Kent:

I am trying to create a Confluence page that collects a multiple choice answer to a set of questions (this is not a survey, just needs to be filled out by any user). The data collection and scores should be persistent.

Each question uses radio buttons (or similar) to select a single answer only to each question.

Each answer has a different weighted value associated with it.

Then the score at the bottom (or top) of page is simply a weighted total of all the answers.

i.e.

Q. What is your age?

1. \<20 (weighted value 1)
2. 20 -- 40 (weighted value 3)
3. \>40 (weighted value 5)

Q. What is your highest education level?

1. High School (2)
2. Bachelor (6)
3. Post Grad (7)
4. Masters (10)

Then if the user selects answers 2 and 4 respectively, then the report would show weighted score of 13.

Does anyone know if there are plugins that can do this or a combination of macros to achieve this?

Has anyone tried to do something similar and can share their code?

<br />


Answers:
author: Chris Kent
body: No solution here, I have reverted to using MS Excel....
User Interface of Zen foundation
Asked by Arnold Chang:

Is it possible to create the user interface of the web site [www.pinterest.com](http://www.pinterest.com)using Zen foundation and Conflunce?


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Hi Arnold,

From a design \& content presentation perspective, yes, you could do something very similar to the pinterest site backed by Confluence and Zen Foundation. Our new Theme Press product would make that quite easy.

From a functional perspective, there's certainly a lot going on, so depending how much of that you were after, could be straightforward or a huge amount of custom code. If you have specifics in mind, or just want to bounce around some general goals, let me know and I'd be happy to brainstorm with you.

Cheers,  
Darryl

comments: author: Arnold Chang
body: Hi Davin and Darryl,

Got it. I got the same answer from my internal web developer earlier and would like to check if there is any special mock-ups from confluence and Zen to be considered so that I don't need to build it from scratch.

Will give it a try after setting up an instance for testing confluence and Zen foundation.

Thanks,

Arnold


author: Arnold Chang
body: Hi Darryl,

Could you please let me know what and how I can do to easily create a web site similar to below URL using Confluence and Zen foundation/Intranet/Theme Press? Could I just your your macros to accomplish it?

[](http://www.gene.com/)<http://www.gene.com/>

If time permits to you, could we have a brainstorming session?

Thanks and Regards,

Arnold


author: Davin Studer
body: Not really. Honestly you could do alot of the stuff that Zen does in the custom css and html section of Confluence admin if you know html, js, and css. Really, since Confluence opens up the ability to put in css and html then you could do most anything using just the base install. Thus I suppose you could do something like Pinterest using html, js, and css ... but you would need to have a coder do it ... nothing to point and click and make it happen.


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Page history version and dot version
Asked by Matthew Wittemeier:

Hi Guys,

We love the page history feature in Confluence, however, we'd love it even more if we could have dot versions (or subversions) of documents as when we export them and send externally we have to use the version number and sending a document that has version number 24 or 62 because of minor tweaks doesn't look great?

Any help would be great.

--  
Matthew


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Matthew, thank you for the suggestion. Not sure if you have seen this, but there is an addon that further extends Confluence version control capabilities, it is called [Scroll Versions](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions). There is a good post about it [here](http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/version-management-gets-serious-with-confluence-scroll-versions-plugin/).

In addition to that, this idea could be added using a ticket in <http://jira.atlassian.com>. As a Feature Request request, it can [be evaluated](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy) to become something delivered in upcoming Confluence releases.

Hope this helps.


author: Matthew Wittemeier
body: HI Guilherme,

Great answer. Scroll Versions looks like it could do the job, but not available in OnDemand :(

Thanks for the help.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
PocketQuery - macro is not working well
Asked by VOLODYMYR IAROVYY:

Hi,

I installed recent version of PocketQuery (Confluence) from Atlassian marketplace and faced issue with query macro - it's simply not displaying correctly. See attached screen for error in IE and how "not displaying" looks like![](../../upfiles/2014-02-19_09_05_51-Edit_-_Confluence.png)


Answers:
author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Volodymyr,

I'm the developer of PocketQuery - I want to apologize for the late answer, somehow I didn't notice this post.

Does the problem still persist with the recent version of PocketQuery? I've actually never seen that error before. Which version of IE are you using?

Regards,  
Felix


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Volodymyr, PocketQuery is supported by Scandio GmbH. I have added the plugin tag to this post as such their team can get to this faster. In case you would like to contact them directly, you can also use [their website](http://www.scandio.de/en/atlassian-en/plugins/pocketquery/).


Tags: confluence-administration
How to allow only certain IPs accessing Jira/Confluence on-demand?
Asked by Kyo Jun Lee:

Hi, I am currently using Jira and Confluence On-demand, and wondering if it is possible to allow access to certain IP addresses only.  


Answers:
author: ???
body: Received an answer from Atlassian developer that it is not currently available feature.

There's a feature wishlist voting now. Hope to see this feature in near future.

comments: author: Matthew Hutton
body: This is tracked by <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-2636>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to raise this with OnDemand support. I seem to remember previous discussions about it, and people saying "ask support", and getting responses from them. I don't remember a flat "no, we don't do that" from support, so it's definitely worth asking.

comments: author: Kyo Jun Lee
body: Thank you very much :)

I'll ask on-demand support about it.

If I get feedback, I'll share it here to let others know. Thanks again! have a great day.


Tags: cloud
Reindexing confluence via script
Asked by Vineetha:

Programmatic reindexing of Jira is mentioned here - [](/questions/92800/activating-jira-indexing-via-script)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/92800/activating-jira-indexing-via-script>

Do you have a similar script to run re-indexing for confluence ?

Thanks,

Vineetha


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

I couldn't find a specific documentation for this, however you could write a script that uses API to trigger a reindex command in confluence.

These docs may help you:

[Rest API Latest](https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/latest/#d2e232)

[Developer REST API](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+REST+APIs+-+Prototype+Only)

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: index

script
Can I collapse comments by default in Confluence?
Asked by TenLeftFingers:

I'd like that when someone visits a page the comments are collapsed by default.


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

Actually by default it's not possible. When you collapse a comment in Confluence, the browser/Confluence will record that you have collapse the comment, and the next time it would show to you collapsed.  

Cheers,  
WZ


Tags: comment
Text module in Confluence
Asked by Andreas Purde:

Hi,

I wonder if there is a possibility via user macro or something else to generate a text block or text module in Confluence which directly shows up in edit mode. I need this because we are tracking some tasks in Confluence and many of them are assigned to the same group of people and I want to avoid retyping it for all users in the group.

In the ideal case I would like to enter the task description once and a macro generates a task list with the same task for the whole group.

Thank you,

Andreas


Answers:
author: Dan Strohl
body: Take a look at scaffolding and the run macros... I am not sure that either woudl totally fix your problem, though possibly both together might. but Scaffolding can provide fields to fill in, using a templating approach so that you say you need a new order income task and it comes up with a form... the run macro coudl potentially generate pages that differed depending on what kind of info was presented.

Also, Ad-Hoc workflows might be able to help if you are just looking for approval or checkign steps witha work flow that routed it through person A, B, .. X.

Dan


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: You'll have to write a plugin to accomplish this. User macros are not rendered when the page is being edited. Here's where I would start:

[](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+Plugin+Guide)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+Plugin+Guide>

hth,

matt


author: Andreas Purde
body: No. I often have the same task which has to be applied to all members of a group:

Person A has to check the order income  
Person B has to check the order income  
...   
Person X has to check the order income

I want to avoid typing this stuff in the editor n times. The ideal case would be in case a macro asks for the task "has to check the order income" and then generates a task list as shown above in edit mode. I'm not familier with macros right now but I did not see whether it is possible that a macro renders its results inside the edit mode.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Are you asking if you can do this?

1) User navigates to a page.

2) User clicks the Edit button to edit the page.

3) Page opens up in Edit Mode. You want additional information to show up in Edit Mode that was not part of the original page?


Tags: editor

task

user-macro
Can I create blueprints space?
Asked by Cedric DEVAUX:

Hello,

I use Confluence 5.3, my responsible asks to me if I can create a blueprint space like "Knowledge base" or "Team space".

Can I create it?

Thank You!

Cedric


Answers:
author: Cedric DEVAUX
body: Thank you


author: Davin Studer
body: You can. Below is a link to the documentation.

[](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Write+a+simple+Confluence+Space+Blueprint)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Write+a+simple+Confluence+Space+Blueprint>


Tags: blueprint

confluence-administration
Is there a confluence template which provides a messageboard similar to a facebook messageboard?
Asked by Laszlo Kremer:

Our goal is a messageboard similar to a facebook message board with posts that are commentable and likeable. This would fit for the homepage of a space.

Just did a short research on templates but did not find any doing this. Anyone met a plugin/template like this?


Answers:
author: Nicole Samel
body: Hi Laszlo,

Although this this post is rather old, I'd love to recommend a great social network add-on / app.

Perhaps this is what you're looking for? :)

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.plugin.confluence.microblog/server/overview>

Yours sincerely,

Nicki


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Lazslo,

[Confluence Activity Stream Gadget](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Activity+Stream+Gadget) appears to be a close match to the described needs. In addition to that you can use [Quick Filters](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.streams.quick-filters-plugin) to change the scope of the contents being displayed. You are able to comment and watch from the activity stream feed.

Hope this info helps!

comments: author: Laszlo Kremer
body: To be honest, this is not exactly I was looking for. Activity is shown in a linear way, later comments appear far from the original post, you can't follow the conversation.

Btw. how do you enable commenting in the activity stream?


Tags: confluence-administration
New User Management doesn't show usage statistics
Asked by Jim Lynch:

Hi all,

We use OnDemand JIRA/JIRA_Agile/Confluence and the User Management area was recently upgraded. It is set up to be "application agnostic" which makes sense. Unfortunately I have lost the ability to follow logins to the system. That info is no longer displayed.

I was capturing login info to see what percentage of my userbase was logging in each week, and who haden't logged in for a long time. We have a number of clients who have access to our instance, and I like to know if they are really using the tools or if they can have their access removed.

Is there any way to see usage info with the new User Management pages? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: See [With the "improved" User Management in JIRA - how do I find out when the last time a user logged in?](/questions/263391/with-the-improved-user-management-in-jira-how-do-i-find-out-when-the-last-time-a-user-logged-in)

comments: author: Jim Lynch
body: It looks like the closest solution being considered is "Last Login" - Bob notes that in the link above, but here it is directly [UNIFIED-12](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/UNIFIED-12)


Tags: cloud
Atlassian SharePoint Connector, Federated Search, Authentication and Authorization
Asked by heinrich-ulbricht-communardo:

After reading the documentation about Federated Search and the SharePoint Connector for Confluence Wiki I am still unsure about the authentication and authorization model.

Assume the following configuration:

* Confluence
* SharePoint Server 2013

User should be able to search Confluence from SharePoint using the Federated Search Webpart.

My questions are:

1. Is the identity of the current SharePoint user used for filtering the Confluence search results that will be presented in the Federated Search Web Part? (Security Trimming)
   * Is the current SharePoint user automatically authenticated against Confluence?
   * Are the Confluence permissions enforced for the SharePoint user?
2. What are the prerequisites for this security trimming to work?  
   * I read something about that it can only work then using Kerberos authentication for SharePoint and Confluence - is this true?
   * Does Confluence need to run on Windows for it to work?
   * Does it work with Basic authentication?

Any help on this topic is appreciated.


Answers:
author: Michael Regelin
body: Hi Heinrich,

I have about the same question to trust model like Confluence and Sharepoint.

So far, we didnt find clue for that.

We are using Sharepoint connection directly to an AD.

Confluence is synchronizing user and group from a Virtual Ldap that has the same member but not group as the AD.

Meanwhile, if you found clue about this, i'm pretty interested in your results or findings.

Sincerly,

Michael


Tags: confluence-administration

sharepoint
How to enable Confluence to be default ondemand site?
Asked by Ignite O?:

Before yesterday when users were logging in to our ondemand base url (\*\*\*\*\*\*.jira.com), they landed in Confluence.

However starting from yesterday they started to be landing in Jira, where they do not have access (we are using Confluence only).

We want our users to land in Confluence when going to ondemand root.

P.S. We have found this bug: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6068)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6068>and now wonder how did it work for us if the bug is not ressolved.


Answers:
author: Juri_Reinsalu
body: No, we always had both - Jira + Confluence just that we have not used (removed permissions from users) Jira for few months now.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Short answer: It's not possible.

I assume until yesterday, you had only Confluence OnDemand. If I'm not mistaken, when you only have Confluence, you reach that page by default.

I assume JIRA was added to your instance, therefore you fall back to the normal scheme: / reaches JIRA, /wiki reaches Confluence, and so on for the other products.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Regarding your PS: I would guess it was because you were Confluence only and that case covered having both.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Problem with HTML-resource paths using Apache Proxy - Confluence Tomcat AJP
Asked by t:

I'm running Confluence 5.4.2 on CentOS 6.5, and trying to use Apache to serve HTTPS to the client, connecting to the Confluence standalone tomcat via AJP.

Note: I already have this setup running perfectly on the same machine with Jira.

The Apache config contains:

```
ProxyPass 		/confluence 	ajp://localhost:28009/confluence/
```

And the server.xml contains:

```
&lt;Context path="/confluence" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true"&gt;                    &lt;!-- Logger is deprecated in Tomcat 5.5. Logging configuration for Confluence is specified in confluence/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties --&gt;                    &lt;Manager pathname="" /&gt;                &lt;/Context&gt;?    &lt;Connector port="28009" redirectPort="28443" enableLookups="false" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8" SSLEnabled="false" scheme="http" secure="false" /&gt;
```

The Confluence base URL is set to <https://myserver.com/confluence>

I can access the base URL (works over https and http), but get a confluence HTML-page containing resources (images, javascripts, css) with links/sources/URLs like

[](http://haste.cyblex.at/confluence/s/en_GB-1988229788/4731/0a2d13ba65b62df25186f4b87e6c642af1792689.1/_/images/logo/confluence-logo.png)<http://myserver.com/confluence/s/en_GB-1988229788/4731/0a2d13ba65b62df25186f4b87e6c642af1792689.1/_/images/logo/confluence-logo.png>

(which gives a Confluence 404 error)

instead of

[](http://myserver.com/confluence/images/logo/confluence-logo.png)<http://myserver.com/confluence/images/logo/confluence-logo.png>(which works fine if I try to view the resource directly via the correct URL)

As far as I can see and check, I'm doing nothing else with Confluence than what is already working with Jira. Any idea or pointers what I am missing?

Best,

Thomas


Answers:
author: t
body: Duh, resolved by adding the missing "/" in the ProxyPass directive

|---|------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | `ProxyPass /confluence/ ajp://localhost:28009/confluence/` |


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I maintain items with a unique identifier (uid / id)?
Asked by Dennis Meyer:

Hello experts,

We have the following challenge:

We want to maintain message texts (in different languages) for our application in confluence and maintain unique message keys for the messages.

I was not able to find something like a uid-generator add-on for confluence.

Another option would be using JIRA issues, but then again I dont want the issues to spoil my Backlog and Process.

Any ideas and help is appreciated. Thanks.

Cheers, Dennis


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Each page has a unique page id, have you tried using this as your id?

Or you can use some plugins like [Scaffolding](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding)? But here you need to "generate" your own ids by hand, nothing automated.

Or, when you are using JIRA, use a new project and/or a new issue type.

Hope there was a good idea in my suggestions ;)
Is there a way to lock a child space in Confluence?
Asked by Adolfo Salas:

We want to have one secure child space. Password locked or just available for an specific user. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Manuela Raschke
body: You have two options:

* You can set restrictions for a whole space (admins can). Then the space will only be visible according to the rights.
* You can set restrictions for a page and it descendents. This needs to be done by someone who has adminstrative rights for the space.


Tags: configuration

confluence-administration

confluence-app