youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to add page ratings
Asked by Gary Niemen:

How to I add page ratings functionality to pages, for example, the typical five star system. Is it a macro or a plug-in or something else?


Answers:
author: Fahad V A
body: You can rate a page in confluence by Rate Macro, [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.rate)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.rate>it is free.. ;)
Is the 'wiki update count' reduced on deleting a page?
Asked by mdtareque:

I would like to know if the count of 'number of wiki contributions' decreases if a existing page is deleted. One page was edited by several users and let say 5 times each. Currently as per my observation, the count is increased by 5.

I am not aware of this and would like to know the answer. I can't play around with creating and deleting pages, hence the question.


Answers:
author: mdtareque
body: Hi Rodrigo, We have one page with the macro "contributors-summary" \[columns=edits,edited\] that gives the number of edits. I see there is time lag (about hours) for the count on this page to be updated as per my observation. Hope this helps. -Thanks


author: mdtareque
body: Hi Rodrigo, We have one page with the macro "contributors-summary" \[columns=edits,edited\] that gives the number of edits. I see there is time lag (about hours) for the count on this page to be updated as per my observation. Hope this helps. -Thanks

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author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi!

I couldn't find the "number of wiki contributions" information. Can you state the place in confluence where you are looking for this information so I can perfom some tests?

Cheers,

Rodrigo
Addons user priviledges
Asked by david martin:

Is there a way to limit or provide specific users rights to use certain addons like Multi-Excerpt?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: HI David,

As far as I know there's no way to do that in default confluence. Maybe with some development you could achieve that.

I could find this Add on that might provide some of the functionality which you are searching for:

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.macrosecurity)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.macrosecurity>

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: app
How can I attach a generic file to a question?
Asked by Lars:

Hey Confluence Team,

is it possible to add other attachments than images to a question of the "Confluence Questions" Plugin?

Thanks in advance for a short hint,

Lars


Answers:
author: john
body: Hey Lars,

Yes - you can add attachments using the Insert link button and then choosing "Attachments" or by dragging and dropping a file into the body of the question space, just as you would add an attachment to a Confluence page.

John

comments: author: Steve Schoo
body: Hi,

I'm having issues dragging and dropping any kind of file other than an image file.

I receive the message

Errors found in contents of the answer

I have received this error with .pptx, .docx, .xlsx and .pdf file types.

Image files attach normally and are displayed in the Question/Answer.

Thanks,

Steve


author: Lars
body: Oh, ok. I think I just found it myself. By adding a link, I can chose attachments...


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
Confluence avatar
Asked by J?rgen V?hringer:

When I started my Confluence trial license, I uploaded a picture and logo into two space created by myself. In both reasons I had a circle to crop the imape, as from yesterday without intentionally changing anything the system offers a square?! How can I go back to the circle?

Cheers,

Joergen


Answers:
author: J?rgen V?hringer
body: I probably resolved this myself. It appears that there is a difference between personal and other spaces.


author: Mehmet Kazgan
body: OnDemand is different I think. Here is an open discussion goign on here about it which you will have more detailed info. I think they disabled this stylesheet changes in OnDemand.

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28275)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28275>

But, you might want to try changing your space theme and see if that makes any change also.


author: Mehmet Kazgan
body: Hi Jorgen,

It might be a macro did not load properly. Try this workaround which might resolve the issue:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=329974322)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=329974322>

Mehmet

comments: author: J?rgen V?hringer
body: does this apply to the onDemand version also? I cleared the cache however, but the option to crop my profile picture is still square, not circled. I should add, that the picture shows up circled after I stored it. But the cropping selection is via a square - not too easy to select the right zone of the picture.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Canvas add on - deactivated/removed on our onDemand instance?
Asked by Kathrine L?nning:

We noticed this morning that the Canvas plug-in (that we just got for a trial last week) was removed from our Confluence.   

In Audit log i can see that System Administrator (atlassian) disabled an add-on module called "Memory Usage" early this morning. (MemoryHealthCheck plugin)  
Can this be the reason for loosing the Canvas plugin?   

We would really like to test this plugin some more before we decide if we want to keep it or not.   
Please help us solve this issue.


Answers:
author: Kathrine L?nning
body: This wasn't caused by the Memory usage add-on being disabled. However it appears the add-on is missing but the Application Link that it relied on isn't.

* [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Application+Link+configuration+cannot+be+deleted+via+the+UI+and+appeared+as+system+link)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Application+Link+configuration+cannot+be+deleted+via+the+UI+and+appeared+as+system+link>

Atlassian did a maintenance job, and it was fixed. Thanks for quick and good support effort from Atlassian team! :)


author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Kathrine,

Please report it at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) so we can take a closer look and help you out :)

Cheers!

comments: author: Kathrine L?nning
body: Thanks for the tip!

I have now created this as an issue at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)

Cheers! :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I configure Confluence to synchronize only a subset of users from my Microsoft AD?
Asked by jacob:

I have created an AD group where I'm adding AD groups containing users that should be able to log in to Confluence.

I have successfully synchronised the whole AD but as we only have XX number of licenses, I would like to limit the number of accounts that are synchronised.

I've tried to follow the steps in the guide below but I cant get it to work.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+the+Number+of+Users+Synchronized+from+LDAP+to+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+the+Number+of+Users+Synchronized+from+LDAP+to+Confluence>

I have tried setting this DN in the "Base DN" field but it failed to work:

CN=CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS,OU=User,OU=System,OU=Groups,OU=Resources,DC=world,DC=myad,DC=org

However, when i only type in the following, it works and synchronise the whole AD.

DC=world,DC=myad,DC=org

Where should i add this field: CN=CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS,OU=User,OU=System,OU=Groups,OU=Resources

?

Kind regards


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi Jacob,

I assume CN=CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS,OU=User,OU=System,OU=Groups,OU=Resources,DC=world,DC=myad,DC=org is a group, right?

If you want just the users on this group to be synchronized, you can set your base DN to be DC=world,DC=myad,DC=org, leave both Additional User and Group DN's empty, and under User Schema Settings-\>User Object Filter, you use a filter like this:

(\&(objectClass=Person)(sAMAccountName=\*)(memberOf=CN=CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS,OU=User,OU=System,OU=Groups,OU=Resources,DC=world,DC=myad,DC=org))

This will ensure only users on CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS will be pulled from AD.

Please let me know if this works for you.

Best regards,

Felipe Alencastro

comments: author: jacob
body: Thank you, but I tried that solution but only the accounts that directly belonged to the Confluence group were found.

The users that had a group belonging to the Confluence group where not found (as the Confluence group wasn't directly connected to those users) so that didn't work for me unfortunately.


author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Try the following:

Base DN:

OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=MyDomain,DC=Local

Then under your Additional Group DN you would specify your Confluence Access group.

Additional Group DN:

CN=CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS,OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=MyDomain,DC=Local

Also, ensure the users you are running the sync as has permissions into the OU's you are attempting to scan.

comments: author: jacob
body: Im sorry, I could not get that to work.

The confluence web page [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+the+Number+of+Users+Synchronized+from+LDAP+to+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+the+Number+of+Users+Synchronized+from+LDAP+to+Confluence>seems to state that I only should add the name of the group "`ou=confluence-users" `where you suggest that i should put the full name "CN=CONFLUENCE_GROUP_USERS,OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=MyDomain,DC=Local"  

I've tried both but It won't sync my users.
Confluence Talk Plugin
Asked by Anne Aloysious:

How can I track pages which have either Confluence comments or talk inserts within the admin view without having to check individual pages in a space? It would help me to keep track of questions and unresolved team discussions.


Answers:
author: Kate (izi)
body: Hi Anne,

As for [Talk inline comments](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.talk.confluence-talk-plugin), you can search Confluence pages for anywhere the Talk macro is used. To do that, enter the query `macroName:talk` in the standard Confluence Search field in the header`.`


Tags: confluence-administration
PDF custom html layout
Asked by Floris hugelier:

Hello,  

when i insert some \<p\> tags in the pdf export header of footer i see none of them when i export the space pdf. The only content i see is the image i inserted in html in the title page.  

Is this a common issue, or am i doing domething wrong ?  

Thanks in advance,  
Kind regards,  
Floris


Answers:
author: Floris hugelier
body: The kind of export i do is a space export. And the header and footer are still not showing up.  
I have no idea what i'm doing wrong here:/


author: Steffen Heller
body: You must do a Space export: Browse \> Advanced \> PDF Export.

In the Download version of Confluence there are two kinds of exports: Page exports and space exports. The PDF Space Export Header / Footer / Title Page only work for space exports.

What you describe is different from what I know so I don't know what version you have or what you do. But basically you have to do a Space export.

So try to find out what version you have, see if you have these options available. Then it should work.


author: Floris hugelier
body: I am making the export via content tools \> export \> pdf \> custom export.  
Does this matter ?


author: Steffen Heller
body: When I enter your code in the header/footer, it does appear on the page with no problem or anything unusual.

So something else must be going wrong on your side, difficult to say what though.


author: Steffen Heller
body: What exactly did you insert? Can you give an example?


author: Floris hugelier
body: ```
This works in the page title:
```

```
&lt;div id="logo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.indiegroup.be/sites/all/themes/indiegroup_2012_theme/images/logo-pdf.jpg" title="indiegroup" alt="indiegroup" class="logo"/&gt;&lt;div/&gt;
```

```
This don't work in the page footer or header
```

```
&lt;h6&gt;Copyright ? Indie Group 2011 - 2014&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Contacteer ons op 0032 56 35 23 89 of via info@indiegroup.be&lt;/h6&gt;
```

```

```
Confluence questions add-on installation
Asked by Ben Jahansetan:

I have a trial Confluence instance running on my Windows vista OS, utilizing Confluence embedded DB. Try to add-on Confluence questions; add-on downloads, but after authenticating into Admin account, it never finishes installing; any ideas?


Answers:
author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi,

which plugin that you're trying to install?

If you're trying to install UPM 2.16.2 and it never finish, I believes that you might bumped into this bug.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33717>


Tags: confluence-administration
Permission of Confluence are not applied correctly.
Asked by egg:

I was set to the same group informaiton for the user.

However, when a user login to the confluence, one can see the space that has been created successfully,  
but others, to move to an error page with a message to contact administrator.

Can you help to solve the problem.

Please let me know if there is addtional information that might be needed to solve the problem.

Thank you.

PS.

We are using the OnDemand service with Google Apps.

![](../../upfiles/user01.png)

![](../../upfiles/user02.png)![](../../upfiles/permissions_3.png)


Answers:
author: egg
body: Was Support request because it is Ondemand service.   
And was confirmed to be a bug in the system, resolved by receiving fixed.

Thank you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your screen shots cover group membership and global permissions, and look ok to me

So I would say the space permissions are incorrect. You need to check those really.

comments: author: egg
body: Thank you for your comment.

But, finding no problem event space permissions.

![](../../upfiles/space_permissions.png)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I meant the actual space permissions, not the default space permissions


author: egg
body: Thank you for answer.

I was assign permissions to space, but the same error occurs.

![](../../upfiles/space_permissions-01.png)

Error Page ![](../../upfiles/jira_error_3.png)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Hang on, that's the global "can use" permission. The users seeing that are not in any of the groups mentioned in your first screen shot.


author: egg
body: It is possible to us a little more explanation?

Already, all users can be included in the group called "??", "can use" rights have been granted.

And, one of them may be used on a regular basis even a user of the same group information, others are not.

I'm sorry to bother.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your users getting the error "you have not been granted access to Confluence" do not have "can use" in the global settings.

If you genuinely think they are in the group and the rights are correct, I suspect you need to start debugging to find out why Confluence is not seeing them in the group. Start by going to users and groups inside Confluence admin and check that they really are there. Then start reading your logs...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Crowd & Confluence SSO
Asked by Steven Lokie:

I'm trying to convert an existing confluence 4.0.3 installation with Crowd 2.3.7. I'm able to connect the two and recieve logs of a good sync. however if in order for login to work my serph config has to have both uncommented

```
&lt;!-- Default Confluence authenticator, which uses the configured user management for authentication. --&gt;        &lt;authenticator class="com.atlassian.confluence.user.ConfluenceAuthenticator"/&gt;    &lt;!-- Custom authenticators appear below. To enable one of them, comment out the default authenticator above and uncomment the one below. --&gt;    &lt;!-- Authenticator with support for Crowd single-sign on (SSO). --&gt;        &lt;authenticator class="com.atlassian.confluence.user.ConfluenceCrowdSSOAuthenticator"/&gt;
```

What am I missing in the setup?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Steven,

did u created crowd.properties file into WEB-INF/classes folder?

```
application.name                        crowdapplication.password                    MY_PASSWORD_HEREapplication.login.url                 http://localhost:8095/crowd/console/crowd.server.url                        http://localhost:8095/crowd/services/crowd.base.url                          http://localhost:8095/crowd/session.isauthenticated                 session.isauthenticatedsession.tokenkey                        session.tokenkeysession.validationinterval              0session.lastvalidation                  session.lastvalidation
```

Some check that you should performed:

- verify that into your crowd directory you defined which groups need to be synchronized to Confluence.

- verify that user that you are using for login is not present into your COnfluence Internal Directory (different username).

- verify directories order into your confluence.

Hope this helps

comments: author: Steven Lokie
body: The crowd properties are set and set correctly according to your file provided, I get to the landing page, I can hit login, then it just returns back to the home page and doesn't complete the login, I'm not seeing anything of not in the error logs either :/


Tags: confluence-administration

crowd

crowd-administration
How do I get sysadmin rights since I copied from Confluence OnDemand and use JIRA as my user directory?
Asked by Daniel Wilson:

I copied my Confluence data from Confluence OnDemand. I'm using JIRA for my user directory to try to make them work well together.

Now I cannot re-enable add-ons in Confluence b/c I have no sysadmin rights.

How do I make a user a system administrator? I don't mind a DB hack if that's what it takes, but no Insert into cwd_membership that seemed promising has helped.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>

comments: author: Daniel Wilson
body: Thanks, Andy. I'd looked at that one, but didn't think it applied. As it turned out, re-sequencing the directories seems to have been the key.


Tags: jira
Wiki markup equivalent for JIRA macro
Asked by Jason Friedman:

I want to create a Confluence page via a RESTful or command line interface and want the page to include the results of JQL.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [CLI Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CCLI) and then use the [getIssueList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-getIssueList) action.

An example:

```
{csv:macros=true|autoNumber=true}{cli:profile=jira|panel=false}--action getIssueList --project ZJIRACLI --quiet --suppressId --columns "key,id,type,summary,description,fix Versions"{cli}{csv}
```

Only use **suppressId** if you are on version 3.9.0 or above.

comments: author: Jason Friedman
body: Hmm. Typically I do something like this to create a page:

```
$ cat my_file{toc}h1. Big headingHello World!
```

Then, I add it:

```
$ confluence.sh --server http://localhost:8090 --user admin --password PASSWORD addPage --replace --space MYSPACE --title 'MYTITLE' --file my_file
```

For a JIRA issue list on a wiki page I'm thinking something like this:

```
$ cat my_file{toc}h1. Big Heading{jira:jql="Project = 'MYPROJECT'"}
```

But, I don't know what that *{jira}* macro should like like.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Ah, I mis-understood your question. You are just asking about the wiki parameters for the jira macro? Just do a jira macro and look at the storage format to see what the parameters are and translate into wiki format.


author: Jason Friedman
body: Perfect, that storage format is useful, thank you Bob! Here's what I did:

```
{jira:columns=summary,updated|server=OURJIRA|serverId=5f2d82c5-db7e-be3a-3a91-ae5c81b5d4ae|jqlQuery=summary ~ "SOME TEXT"}
```


author: Scott Paden
body: Why isn't there a simple markup like {Jira: FOO-123}? At least in the context of Atlassian cloud where Confluence and Jira are in the same cloud instance / URL.


author: Scott Paden
body: OOPS, my bad. That does work.
timeout exception for html macro
Asked by Fahad V A:

Hi,

When I use html macro for a link i am getting timeout exception .. :(

This happens only for some links and for some others everything is working fine..


Answers:
author: Fahad V A
body: HI Stephen,

Thanks for your reply.. When I add the url in http.nonProxyHosts the issue got reslved... :)


author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: If you use an IFrame macro do you get the same results?
How can I copy and paste an email in Confluence from Gmail without losing the format?
Asked by Victor Moleiro:

I want to copy and paste an email from GMAIL, but when I do it, it doesn t look the same, it loses the colors, shapes etc.. How can I copy and paste an email in Confluence from Gmail without losing the format? I need to copy and paste easily, if it is a software for group working it should not be difficult


Answers:
author: Mike Morrissey
body: I agree. When working offline and writing the text in a mail program or word pad and then copying it into Confluence loses the formatting and sometimes even the line order.

The reverse,writing it in confluence and copying to a mail program does the same (not an Atlassian problem) but could be helped by the Share with external user that has been on the Community site for a while [Share-confluence-page-to-non-user](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/208452/share-confluence-page-to-non-user)

thanks

Mike.


author: richardofrugeley
body: I also have this issue, when copying email from MS Outlook. The colours are lost, and some of the conversation sequence is re-arranged.
Confluence:Inserting existing variable in template gives double-dollar and doesn't pick up value
Asked by Phil Deadman:

Running Confluence 5.2.3 downloaded.

When I create a new template and create a variable (called firstVariable) it appears as "$firstVariable". When I try to insert that variable elsewhere in the document to pick up the original value it creates and inserts a new variable called "$$firstVarable" which is unconnected to the data in "$firstVariable". Effectively I have to double-up all my variables and use the double-dollar version everywhere.

Surely this cannot be the designed behaviour! I've tried it in different browsers, and in different Spaces but it does the same thing every time. Is this a known issue? Is there some configuration setting I am missing?

Please help!


Answers:
author: Phil Deadman
body: It looks like this is a bug in the "insert template items" button. If I just use the keyboard, type a dollar and select from the pop-up list then the variable is inserted just fine without the double-dollar.

I'll raise an issue with support and see what they say. At least there is a workaround so I don't have to duplicate all my variables!


Tags: template

variable