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How to change dashboard owner
Asked by AlexVN:

I've created dashboard for project and how want another user edit it eigher by changing ownership, author or by sharing it. Any thoughts?

Thanks,  
Alex


Answers:
author: Michele Grimm
body: In JIRA 6.2

**![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/306349120/bluecog-icon.png) \>** **User Management** \> **Shared Dashboards**

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Shared+Dashboards>

comments: author: Ryan O Sullivan
body: perfect


author: Sebastian Gomez
body: This worked better than the built-in Script-Runner dashboard feature. Thank you!


author: JamieA
body: There is a built-in script [Change dashboard or filter ownership](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Built-In+Scripts#Built-InScripts-Changedashboardorfilterownership) in the [script runner](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Script+Runner) plugin, although I think I noticed this was possible in 5.0. Not sure though.


author: Kristin Bitler
body: Updating to current: **\> System \> Shared Dashboards**, find the dashboard to be edited, change owner from the cog on the right.

comments: author: Ulrich Agricola
body: As for Jira 7.5.3, I can't see *Administration \| System \| Shared Dashboards* , but only *Administration \| System \| System-Dashboard*.

If I open a dashboard other than System-Dashboard, there ist no *Edit Dashboard* in the ... menu.

Thus I cannot change/edit any Dashboard other than System-Dashboard.

Regards

Uli


author: Ulrich Agricola
body: Solved.

Its a Jira-**Server** , so go to *Boards \| View all* . Go to "**...** " and delete or open your *own* board and edit.

Sorry to bother.

Regards  
Uli


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: 4.0 will now allow you to do that. In the past I have gotten around it by creating a 'generic' account, and anyone who needs to manage the dashboard logs into that account and makes the appropriate changes.


Tags: dashboard

jira
Get a list of assigned tasks in Confluence
Asked by BerndA:

Is there a way to see all the tasks that have been assigned to my user?

I would like to create a central page where I can quickly get an overview of all the tasks assigned to me.

Any idea?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: AFAIK the Tasklist Macro does not provide this functionality. I'd suggest using a dedicated task management plugin like Ad hoc Workflows. See the [video on this page](http://www.atlassian.com/en/confluence-content-collaboration#add-ons) for more details.

comments: author: BerndA
body: The video looks good. Looks like we have to update.


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: Are you talking about wanting to use the tasklist macro, <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/LiEC>.


author: BerndA
body: create a filter in JIRA to show all the tasks assigned to you. Then use JIRA Issues macro in Confluence to see the results of this filter in Confluence.

comments: author: BerndA
body: Thank you for your fast answer. I am looking for a solution that works in Confluence without any other software like Jira. Any other idea?
How to place an Attachment upload link in page, not just under the Attachments Macro list?
Asked by Merrill Oates:

We have users who regularly need to quickly upload a file attachment to a page.  
Is it possible to place an Attachment upload link as an independent element in a page?

For example: the Attachments Macro, when placed in a page provides the option to "Allow upload" so that there is a "Browse" button at the end of the list of Attachments allowing the user to upload another attachment to the list.

We would like to be able to place this Attachment Upload Browse button as an independent element in the page. Rather than always having to scroll down to the bottom of the list of attachments to be able to select the upload button. (If a large number of attachments are already listed here, this becomes very tedious to be able to regularly have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find the link.)

Any options for placing the Attachments Browse button independently in the page, or other alternatives would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Do you really need this? Or could it be more a matter of user training?Most modern browsers allow you to drag and drop an attachment onto a page.


Tags: attachment
Disabling connecting to the atlassian plugin exchange.
Asked by S?awomir Turlej:

We are deploying a Confluence instance with our custome set of plugins. Our customer's server does not have connection to internet. Every time we are trying to do anything with our plugin (install/uninstall it), Confluence tries to connect to the Atlassian Plugin Exchange, only to throw java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out Exception, which takes too long. Is there a way to disable connecting to the Atlassian Plugin Exchange in upm ??  


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Slawomir, have a look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Problems+Connecting+to+the+Atlassian+Plugin+Exchange> and the section on Using UPM without an Internet Connection.

comments: author: JamieA
body: You may need to update the UPM plugin as this was only added relatively recently.
Is it possible to automatically create a link to confluence document when creating a jira issue from confluence
Asked by Philippe Schram:

We plan to use confluence as entry point for issue creation. With this method we want to use all confluence functionnallities in order to manage documents and their version AND in the same time be able to acces confluence data directly from jira issue. We want to avoid manually inserting confluence link update in jira issue.

The idea is:

1. create a page in confluence,

2. from this page create a jira issue with the link to confluence page

3. from jira, using the confluence link to acces page.

Thanks fo your help,

Philippe


Answers:
author: a.haaken
body: In Jira 5 this is a solved Use Case (if the videos are right)

<http://www.atlassian.com/social-software-development-with-jira>

comments: author: John Edstrom
body: I have jira 4.4.3 and confluence 4.1.5. I've just activated applications links between them and connected a jira project with a space.

I'm new at Jira \& Confluence so maybe I havent' gotten to the right screen yet, but what's supposed to happen? I haven't noticed any new linking functionality beyond the already installed confluence-side jira-issue macro and the jira-side conluence page linkage tool.


Tags: jira
openwiki to confluence convertion
Asked by Vishal Shah:

Hi,

We have some openwiki pages and would like to migrate to confluence, please advice how can we do it


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: There isn't a simple answer to that question. If you have a in-house development team with expertise in data migrations, you could consider having them develop you a custom converter and migration process utilizing the [Universal Wiki Converter](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter) tool. There isn't an openwiki module already, but that tool is open-source and extensible, and using it might cut down on some of the work.  

If you do not have a team with expertise in custom migrations, please consider the following:  
Confluence migrations -- like all migrations -- are highly dependent on content, context, syntax, environments, from-system parameters, and even human-input -- and so providing a blanket solution answer is difficult.  

We suggest [this checklist](https://www.appfusions.com/display/Dashboard/Wiki+Migration+Checklist) as a first review of your systems -- and how to plan and progress forward on what development might be required to best automate this effort and mitigate risk.  

If you are thinking of using the UWC, please note: Confluence 4 UWC updates to support this release are in active review as I write. Please contact [migrations@appfusions.com](mailto:migrations@appfusions.com) for more details.


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
How can I view the history of my dashboard?
Asked by Greg Kullberg:

We have several Confluence administrators. It would be great to know who has made changes to the dashboard, and also be able to see the differences between each change (basically the same functionality as a regular wiki page). We are running version 3.5. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Greg Kullberg
body: I would think that it would be intuitive to enable the same functionality on the dashboard as you have with any other wiki page. Being the most prominent page on the site, it would make sense to have the ability to easily preview and quickly roll back changes. It's not really about access, it's about being able to test various changes to the page without having to save each time, and being able to roll back if something breaks.


author: hsuhailah
body: Hrmm, this doesn't seem to be possible at the moment. You can try enabling [Confluence user access logging](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/How+to+audit+Confluence+-+enabling+user+access+logging), which can tell you who and what a user is accessing. It does not tell you what is changed, though.
LDAP Membership information not being retrieved
Asked by Charlie Barker:

We are using Confluence Version 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 6.1  

User Directories Config  
=================  
Confluence Internal Directory Internal  
Upgraded atlassian-user LDAP (ldapRepository) Microsoft Active Directory (Read Only, with Local Groups)

We see AD users and Groups but membership information is not displayed. In a space we can grant permissions to an AD group but members of that group cannot access the space.

If anyone has an idea on how we could resolve this I would be eternally grateful.


Answers:
author: Charlie Barker
body: This was caused by the the user information being authenticated by the wrong database. In Jira, we use three databases at the moment. There is the internal database, LDAP authentication database for our London users and Active directory authentication for our SA users. So, to resolve this, we deleted the affected users which at the time were pointing to either the internal database or LDAP London database and their account were automatically synced into wiki and jira, pointing to the right LDAP database for authentication.


author: Manse Wolken
body: I tried to use the memberOf parameter and got no results.

So i did stay with the "normal" use, telling Confluence the additional user and group dn, and made sure that i used the richt attribute for groupmembership. In my case (OpenDS): uniqueMember

I think the memberOf Feature should speed up things, because Confluence shoud not have to search every Group for membership.

But i don't know in which cases this feature works.

Good luck

Manse


author: Manse Wolken
body: Well I haven't enabled "memberOf" in none of the Confluence and Jira Instances that I administrate.

And as LDAP Server: We use OpenDS.

But for OpenDS we use "uniqueMember" for the "Group member" attribute, rest like AD.

For Active Directory I use:

Enabled Nested Groups

"member" as "Group member" attribute

"memberOf" as group-membership attribute (the second field in the group membership options)

DISABELD both cases on "Use of 'memberOf'

Apache Directory Studio seems to use a bit different type of LDAP searches. There the memberOf feature works, with AD and OpenDS.

Was that of helpful? or do you need more Info?


author: Kimberly McKinnis
body: Not so helpful, but I'm also struggling with this with openLDAP and Linux. I'm unsure if it's even a supported feature, am subscribing to this question :)

I should add that I have tried using the memberOf parameter, but it returns blank, even though I can view the list of groups, with both OpenLDAP and ApacheDS :( Have you done the same?

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>


Tags: ldap

user-management
how to have both public & private comments?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I want external users (customers) to be able to post and see each other's comments.

I also want internal users (employees) to be able to post comments that only internal users can see, to discuss possible changes and so on.

How can I do both?


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: Other than building a plugin, this is a feature request - see [CONF-5639](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5639). You can comment in that issue and vote for it, or add your specific use-case.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: It is possible to select who can view the comments when it is posted. When internal customers post it, they should make sure the visibility is selected appropriately!

Edit: This is for JIRA, not Confluence.

comments: author: Robert Lauriston
body: I see view restrictions for pages, but not for comments.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Checkout the comment visibility section here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Commenting+on+an+Issue#CommentingonanIssue-addcomment>

Also check how the administrator has configured it.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Oops, I am talking about JIRA! My bad!


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: This seems like a perfectly reasonable use of a custom plugin. I've developed similar functionality in the past. You'd likely want to configure an LDAP group as the internal users and set the comment visibility based on that group.


Tags: comment

group
Word import: numbered list converted to bulleted lists
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I imported a Word document into a Confluence 4.0 space using the Documentation theme. Numbered lists have been converted to bulleted lists.

Per <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Office+Connector+Limitations+and+Known+Issues> they should be numbered lists.

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: Same thing happening in 4.0.3.


Tags: import

list
Word import: cross-references not hyperlinked
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I imported a Word document into a Confluence 4.0 space using the Documentation theme, splitting topics down to the fourth level. Internal cross-reference hyperlinks (i.e. field codes with name=Ref, Field properties=\<bookmark name\>, "Hyperlink to paragraph" checked) are not being converted to links.

If <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Office+Connector+Limitations+and+Known+Issues> mentions this I can't find it. Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: I did. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/OFFCONN-54>

comments: author: Andrea Picaro
body: Hello we have still this problem in 7.8.1 the accepted answer seems to be a "won't fix" it's not clear to me whether there is a solution or not.

Thanks


author: Robert Lauriston
body: There's not.


author: Genevieve Cory
body: This is still happening in 5.3.4.


author: Genevieve Cory
body: This is still happening in 4.3.7.


author: RyanA
body: This should work. Can you please file a bug and attach your word document to the issue?


author: Joerg Bencke
body: hear hear. Assigning "confluence labels" based on keywords in word woudl be nice too :)


author: Robert Lauriston
body: Same thing happening in 4.0.3.


Tags: import

link
latest uwc - empty output directory
Asked by Damjan Dimitrov:

Hi,

I'm using the latest UWC built from source because I need it for Confluence 4.

It works good when uploading pages to Confluence, but the output directory on the filesystem is empty.

So when I set the upload to confluence to false, I don't have the converted pages.

Any hints on this?

Thanks,  
Dame.


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: Set the engine-saves-to-disk property to true in your converter properties

Looks like:

```
mywiki.0001.engine-saves-to-disk.property=true
```

comments: author: Matt Lehmann
body: where does one add this?  

when i run UWC in older version, it creates the output/output directory. this new version does not create the directory. uploads are fine (with errors, of course, which is why i am trying to get the output) but the output directory is never created.


author: jsalch
body: I have the same issue.


author: Damjan Dimitrov
body: Thanks, that did the trick.


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
Migration from Drupal to Confluence
Asked by Charlie Ibarzo:

Hi there,

Is it possible to migrate from Drupal to Confluence? Has anyone done that?

Cheers,

Carlos


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: If you have an in house developer team, you could write a custom converter module for the UWC. [Developer doc here](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Developer+Documentation).

If you do not have a team with expertise in custom migrations, we suggest [this checklist](https://www.appfusions.com/display/Dashboard/Wiki+Migration+Checklist) as a first review of your systems -- and how to plan and progress forward on what development might be required to best automate this effort and mitigate risk.

Note also: UWC updates to support Confluence 4 release are in active review as I write. Please contact [migrations@appfusions.com](mailto:migrations@appfusions.com) for more details.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Thanks Jobin - we will extend the UWC for this flavor upon request to [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) - based on customer demand.

Commented to the issue about this.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: There is an open issue for this at <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/UWC-462>


Tags: migration

universal-wiki-converter
"Can't split this document. It contains no Heading styles."
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

Trying to import a Word .doc file I get the message, "Can't split this document. It contains no Heading styles."

What does Confluence look for to identify a heading style? Paragraph styles for headings that should appear in the TOC are ChapterTitle, Heading1, Heading2, Heading3, and Heading4.


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: The headings have to be default Word styles. I changed ChapterTitle to Title and Heading# to Heading # and it worked.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Could you post the document? It would allow others to see how it is formatted.


author: Kevin Buchs
body: It looks for the standard/default: heading1, heading2, etc.


Tags: import
Confluence 4.0 dashboard global space list
Asked by Gerri Urban:

I understand that the global space list on Confluence 4.0 dashboard is not a fixed size - that in itselft is a major bummer - but I can deal with it I guess, What is really bothersome is the fact when you click on the view all link, it takes you to the Space Directory, displaying the same spaces you just saw and you still have to click again to get to the next page. Is there a way to modify that space directory to show all spaces? We have been use to seeing all spaces when looking for information and it will be difficult to train the employees otherwise, and the 2 extra clicks are annoying. Yes I know you can create your own custom lists, your own favorites and categories. I just want to find a way to easily view all the spaces at once and that seems to be blocked at the moment - but I easily could be missing something - been trying to work with the .vm files to see if there is something in there I can change but haven't found it.

I appreaciate any suggestions.

Thank you

Lirria


Answers:
author: John Masson
body: Hi Lirria,

One option may be to [use a space home page](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page) as the default landing page instead of the dashboard and as one of the items on it make use of the [space list macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Spaces+List+Macro) to display all spaces.

Thanks,  
John

comments: author: Gerri Urban
body: Thank you - that is an interesting thought - now to just get all the information in there - I think it's spaces-list for the whole list - I'll dink around with it thanks!

<br />

Lirria


author: Gilbert Martins
body: I have added on the dashboard.vm and it's work ( body section for example)

\<script type="text/javascript"\>  
window.location = "/spacedirectory/view.action"  
\</script\>

comments: author: Gerri Urban
body: Super - I'll have to 4 installed again and test it out - Just haven't had the time to try it.

Thank you!

Lirria


Tags: dashboard
Calendar export gives page not found
Asked by Gerri Urban:

Hello everyone!

I hope somebody out there can help. I recently upgraded to Confluence 3.5.13 (ok the day before 4.0 was announced - talk about bad timing) So now I"m preping to upgrade to 4.0 and am trying to get the calendars in 3.5.13 to export. Everytime I try I get page not found (I get the same error when trying to subscribe too - I just thought it was because this is a private, locked down behind a firewall wiki - but I guess not)

Any advice for getting these calendars exported? if it was one or 2 I would just recreate them but we have well over 30.....

Thank you

Lirria


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: I'm not sure why you need to export the calendars? You should be able to just upgrade to 4.0, and the calendars will continue to work.

In any case, to look into why the exports are failing you should raise an issue at <https://support.atlassian.com>

Cheers,  
Mark

comments: author: Gerri Urban
body: The new Team-Calendar plug in does not convert exsisting calendars and the documentation for install says to export the exsisting calendars, uninstall the calendar plugin then install team-calendar and import the calendars - if you know of another way that would be great - some of our calendars have 4 and 5 all in one so it's a ton of work. Or if you know of a supported calendar plug in other than team calendar that would be great too.

Lirria


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: Ah right, I didn't realise you were migrating them over to use Team Calendars. As I said, raise a support ticket to get help on this.


author: Gerri Urban
body: Thank you - I thought I would try here first to see if I was just missing the obvious solution. I'll open a ticket.

Lirria


Tags: calendar
How to add DoD Logon Banner in login page in login.vm?
Asked by JR Aratea:

How to add DoD Logon Banner in login page in login.vm?


Answers:
author: Ali
body: Did you figure this out?


author: Jay Barra
body: Can you add that as the standard welcome message on the front page configuration?


author: JR Aratea
body: DoD is Department of Defense: DoD requires requires the use of a standard Notice and Consent Banner and standard text to be included in user agreements.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: What does [DoD](http://www.acronymfinder.com/DOD.html) mean?

comments: author: Christopher D Holcombe Sr_
body: Department of Defense