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Importing pages from disk, doesn't work...
Asked by darragh:

Hi there,

I am currently having trouble importing HTML files from disk to Confluence. Although we are currently trial running Confluence on a Ubuntu VM (haven't migrated it to our servers yet), it shouldn't mean the importing from disk funtionality stops working.

I logged in as Sys admin, entered the directory where the HTML files are being kept on the VM (/home/ddowney/HtmlToConf), which is currently hosting Confluence, and selected Import.

So again, my question to you is, how come importing from disk essentially refuses to work and just brings me to the current spaces list page view and does nothing.

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Darragh,

To have a better idea about the problem, could you please let us know what kind of error message is appearing? (did you check your logs(atlassian-confluence.log) to see if there's some specific error when you try to do this import?)

If possible, please check the logs and if there's some error paste it here, so we can have a better idea from the application side what can be happening.

Also, just for test purposes, please try the following:

\* Stop your Confluence.  
\* Then remove the content from the following folders (to recreate the bundled plugins from your instance):  

a) The \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins folder  
b) The \<confluence-home\>/plugin-cache folder  
c) The \<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache folder  
d) The \<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp folder

\* Then start the instance again and try to reproduce the error.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: darragh
body: Thanks for your speedy reply, however the UWC solved the problem ie. importing html files into Confluence. But I will try what you have suggested to see what is causing the problem.
Confluence documentation issues: renamed, duplicated pages, missing images
Asked by Cami Detesan:

Hi,

Often after editing an existing documentation on Confluence I confront the following issues:

1. some pages are renamed (for example their chapter number is gone);

2. the order in the tree is not the same. The pages are moved into other sections;

3. some pages are duplicated. The duplicated one has a new name (for example the original file is "4.1. Test" and the new page is "Test"). Only the second one is displayed and when trying to rename it back to "4.1. Test", see point 4;

4. if I try to rename the page, I receive a message saying that the page already exists, but it is not visible in the document tree;

5. images are removed from documentation.

Why is this happening and why so often?

It is a little bit unpleasant to check every day if the documentation is still ok. It is a waste of time :)

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: This is really a tough one to troubleshoot from this forum. It's probably best to raise a supprot ticket at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) to ge thelp with this one, as they will want access to your server logs etc...

comments: author: Cami Detesan
body: Thank you Sherif,

I will open the ticket with the mentioned issues and... hope for the best :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Getting Media to Play On Top of a Confluence Page
Asked by Chris Ramsey:

Hi,

My manager would like for the user to be able to click a link and have a semi-opaque black shape fill the page on top of which a SWF or other media file would then play. There would be a Close button on this shape for returning to the page. If possible, a player skin would be enabled for controlling playback.

If you notice when you open the Source Editor when editing a page, the Source Editor appears on top of the page over a semi-opaque black shape. Likewise, if I add an image to a page and set it to a smaller size, I get an image that I can click in the live page, and it appears at full size with an X button to its upper-right. Is there a way to copy that functionality for other links?

This is an example of something that works the way I'd like for a still image; I just need it to also work for a SWF.  
\<ac:image ac:thumbnail="true" ac:width="65"\>\<ri:attachment ri:filename="icon03.jpg"/\>\</ac:image\>

I have exhausted Google and Atlassian Answers in search for a solution to no avail.

Thank you,  
Chris


Answers:
author: RianA
body: If you would like to put it on top of header, I think it should be possible on either Custom HTML or [page layout](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts). However if you would like to make it like image preview, you might need to do a lot of java scripting with including [html macro](https://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CFYQFjAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fconfluence.atlassian.com%2Fdisplay%2FDOC%2FHTML%2BMacro&ei=utpbUfD7FoiSrgfYmoHAAg&usg=AFQjCNESgNwUx8A82d-u5u9exFLoidJ-Uw&sig2=n3RbcsUbUNjSZ4UZ01gYzA).

comments: author: Chris Ramsey
body: Thanks Rian. We ended up making a new page for each SWF-based training module. It's less elegant than my manager had hoped for, but it works.


author: RianA
body: Most welcome. Glad that you've found the resolution :)


Tags: display

pop-up

swf
Synchorinizing Content Between Spaces and Instances
Asked by Peter Kahn:

Hi all,

Is there a tool or technique for mirroring pages between spaces or confluence instances (other than export/import)? Basically, I'd like the same source control merge functionality in my confluence instances.

* Push source space to destination space (possibly on 2nd confluence instance)
* Detect differences between source space / destination space
* Cherry pick merge changes source space to destination space

We run internal and external customer facing confluence instances. We stage content on internal and push to external. Our spaces mirror our source trees (trunk, version3.5 etc...)

I'd like to automate both internal -\> external push and trunk space to versionX.Y space propagation. Push-To-External would detect any changes on internal and push to external all changes. Space to space propagation is about detecting changes and then presenting the user with options (or just a list of pages to view).

Please let me know if you know of tools to do this. My present approach will be to implement detection and forced push via rest API. Handling the full fledged merge via this seems daunting. If there's a tool out there to hande this situation, I'd much rather use it.

Thanks

Peter


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Peter

The Scroll Versions add-on sounds just the ticket for you.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions>

Another good tool to consider: The Content Publishing add-on, in combination with Ad Hoc Workflows:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.publishing>

If you'd prefer to set up your own automated processes, have a look at the Confluence CLI, a highly flexible tool:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassian.cli>

Cheers

Sarah

comments: author: Peter Kahn
body: Hi Sarah,

This is why I use atlassian products. The tools are good, the eco system and community are even better. Thanks

Peter
Customware Reporting & Metadata Plugin
Asked by Grzegorz Kopij:

Hi

this has been already asked, but there seems to be no solution for that:

Has anybody succesfuly integrated the metadata-plugin with the Customware-Reporting-Macros? No one of the examples seems to work in Confluence 4.x.

Thanks in advance

G.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello there,

Being honest with you I didn't see this integration before, but one suggestion that I would like to comment with you would be to try to make a contact with the Customware in order to try to obtain more information about this, probably they will be able to provide you a more concrete answer, you can make a contact with them by the following:

[www.customware.net](http://www.customware.net)

[info@customware.net](mailto:info@customware.net)

+1 888 707 0088  
+61 2 9900 5700

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.


Tags: metadata
How do I minimize the left side menu in Cofluence by default?
Asked by Jessica Sullivan:

How do I minimize the left side menu in Cofluence by default? I don't want to have to press \[ on the keyboard on every page.


Answers:
author: Jessica Sullivan
body: I switched to using Chrome and pressed \[ and closed my browser. When I reopened Confluence the side menu was minimized by default. So, this works as long as I don't use ie.


author: Marlon Aguiar
body: I belive a similar question was raised and answered here: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/28155/documentation-theme-default-width-in-px-of-left-panel](/questions/28155/documentation-theme-default-width-in-px-of-left-panel)

Hope it helps!!

Marlon Aguiar

comments: author: Jessica Sullivan
body: That does help but I'm wondering if there is a setting I can use that's built in. Also, I tried this suggestion and it didn't work for me "The initial width of the left panel sould be 250px. But a changed width will be saved to a cookie. So if you restart your browser you will get your last defined width."
Where is the "Wiki" tab?
Asked by Jeff Wright:

In the video at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8n9uW3afg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8n9uW3afg,), the presenter shows a Jira screen that has a "Wiki" tab (see, for example, at 2:17). I assume this is the Confluence instance. I would like to have the same functionality.

We are running Jira 5.2.6 on port 8080, and Confluence 4.3.7 on port 8090, on the same machine locally. How do I configure my system to allow this?


Answers:
author: C. Faysal
body: hi Jeff.

why not simply activating the new header and switch applications from there?

![](../../upfiles/Bildschirmfoto_2013-04-03_um_15.09.15.png)

comments: author: Jeff Wright
body: What version of Jira is that in? I am running Jira 5.2.6 on port 8080, and Confluence 4.3.7 on port 8090 of the same machine. I do not see that new header in my version.


author: C. Faysal
body: just a thought. the tabbed solution was nice though but personally i prefer the new style


author: C. Faysal
body: if your confluence is v5 or above your header would look like this

![](../../upfiles/Bildschirmfoto_2013-04-03_um_15.19.00_2.png)


author: C. Faysal
body: ah ok.

the jira version is 5.2.9 but in 5.2.6 it can be activated too.

the problem here is the confluence version. i think version 5 introduced the new header and i didn't find out how to activate it in previous versions to 5.x

for the jira part simply go to

http(s)://your_jira/secure/admin/AdvancedApplicationProperties.jspa

and add "com.atlassian.jira.darkfeature.CommonHeader" as key value for "jira.enabled.dark.features"

this will bring you the new styled header


author: Jeff Wright
body: Thanks for the info. I will lobby with my Ops team to assist me in updating Jira and Confluence to the latest so that I can get the latest "look and feel."


author: LucasA
body: Hi Jeff,

This is the old look n' feel of Atlassian OnDemand. Actually all the interface has been modified, and instead of the "Wiki" tab you'll have a common header for all the applications. Thus the "Wiki" tab is no longer available. You can have a similar functionality by a 3rd party plugin, but it requires aditional licensing:

- <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.tweeenveertig.navigator-plugin>

Best regards,  
Lucas Timm

comments: author: Jeff Wright
body: That addon seems to give a nice tabbed link from Jira to Confluence, but not the other way around. :-( I ended up uninstalling it after failing to get it to do what I want.

As far as the new look and feel are concerned - I guess I can live with it. I'm just ending up using two different browsers (Safari and Chrome), one pointing to Jira and one to Confluence. This is more because of the fact that Atlassian cookie tracking is per-URL instead of per-URL:port. If I try to have both open in the same brwoser in tabs, I am constantly logging back in again. But I don't consider this to be a sleek way to do things. It seems to me that better integration between the two apps would make for a much more contiguous site feel (kinda like Trac).


Tags: confluence-administration

jira-administration
Hide Dashboard - Consequences?
Asked by Dave_Harrington:

Is it possible to *selectively* hide the Dashboard from certain users/groups?

If so, does doing so affect what can be displayed for those groups (in the space they are restricted to) in terms of using {include} etc?

For example:

Group ABC can view content in Space 123. We'd like any user from this group to "land" in this space when logging in, and not be able to get to the Dashboard, or navigate to other spaces.

However, we'd like our internal users to be able to use the include macro to display content to the group from Space 987. We have given the group view permission to 987, but don't want them to be able to actually navigate to it. Hence, the hidden Dashboard.

Will this work?

Thanks for any help...


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

I did some quick search here and I've found this other answer which might have some tips for you to hode the dashboard for anonymous users and for groups as well.

Here is the link: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/783/hide-dashboard-action-page-from-anonymous-users>

My colleague Husein specified the [visibility plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility) and [redirection plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.redirection) as a workaround for that.

In his example if you can add the following in your Global Layout the anonymous will be redirected to the demonstration space when they reach the dashboard.

```
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{show-to:users=@anonymous}")$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{redirect:ds:}")$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{show-to}")
```

I hope this helps! :D

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Dave_Harrington
body: Thanks... While the code snippet is specific to redirecting anonymous users, I think I can get how using the show-if macro (show-to and hide-from have both been deprecated - according to the plugin docs) would accomplish what I'm after. Although, I'm not sure where in the global layout I should insert the code in order to a) hide the breadcrumbs from certain users when they are land in their specific space, and/or b) if the dashboard is must be shown, hide some of the recent update tabs, at least. Any details would be appreciated, since I'd rather not experiment with something so critical...?


author: KP11
body: We tried the above 3 lines and got stuck at message "Redirecting to :ISC"

We used Groups instead of users.

Any idea what we are doing wrong?


author: Armon Tiongco
body: Where is the Global Layout available? I have Documentation Theme configured and it seems to be preventing me from editing the layouts.


author: KP11
body: Confluence Admin\>Layouts


Tags: dashboard

space
Create a page with a "sales funnel" chart displayed
Asked by Jason Pepper:

I need to create a page (in Confluence 4.1) with a "sales funnel" chart displayed, similar to the following image..

![](http://workwithdavidwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/how-to-build-a-sales-funnel.jpg)

does anyone know of a method or plugin that can achieve this ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Chris Eldredge
body: Upvote! I have the same question. Thanks!


author: Duncan Buchanan [X]
body: Same question here too!
How to disable the "Recent Labels" and "Popular Labels" macros/boxes?
Asked by TomTom:

Hi!  

We are facing some performance issues with Confluence 4.2.1 and would like to disable the "Recent Labels" and "Popular Labels" boxes from a specific page. That page appears when someone searches for all sites related to a label by clicking on the respective label in the label overview.  

We disabled the "popular-label" and "recently-used-labels" macros from the "Advanced Macros" Add-On as described here:  
https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/117268/disable-the-popular-labels-macro (please copy and paste; the link does not work for some reason.)  
However, the "Advanced Macros" Add-On is categorized as "User-installed Add-Ons" in our environment, not as "System Add-Ons". But I guess that changed with some new version of Confluence.  

Unfortunately, the boxes are still appearing on this page.  
Is there any way to disable/remove them completely?  

Reason: We learned that the SELECT statements for those boxes take much time and in total, from the moment a user clicks a label until this search result page is displayed, 3-5mins pass.  

Thanks for your help!  
Cheers, Tom


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The "Recent Labels" and "Popular Labels" in the right column are populated by the labels-sidebar.vm file. This file is located in the /confluence/labels/includes/ directory.

Looking at this VM file, it appears that the $action.getText("recent.labels") and $action.getText("popular.labels") are the culprits.

So, you could either comment out those functions (or the entire file), or comment out the place where this file is being parsed. In this case, the labels-sidebar.vm file is being parsed by the viewlabel.vm file (which is the page that I think you're referring to).

hth,

matt

comments: author: TomTom
body: Hi Matthew,

thank you very much! Commenting out the caller and the functions (to be save) increased the performance of this site enormously. We are down to 15-20secs. until this site is being displayed.

Thanks for your help!  
Cheers, Tom


author: TomTom
body: Side note:

If someone else is having issues with label performance:

An update to at least 4.2.5 will perfectly fix all issue regarding that topic. Found here:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25236>  
We tested the behaviour on 4.3.7 and the performance issues are completely gone.

Cheers, Tom


Tags: disable

label
Layout problem in Confluence 5 Admin screens
Asked by Felix Grund (Scandio):

Hello people,

I'm experiencing a weird layout problem when I develop my own web sections within the Confluence administration: the left main navigation shifts down with the my body content.

I attached two screenshots:

1) The default layout of the administration console (which is perfectly fine)  
2) My own admin action which makes the navigation shift down

The screens show the Chrome devtools with a \<br class="clear"\> tag marked. In the screen with the layout problem, if I shift that \<br\> tag up one div level, the problem is solved. But I'm not sure how to fix this (I'm currently putting a \<br class="clear"\> with JavaScript one level higher at the end of \<div id="admin-content"\> which is an ugly workaround I would like to get rid of.

Any help's appreciated!

Regards,  
Felix Grund \[Scandio GmbH\]

![](../../../upfiles/screen1_1.jpg)

![](../../upfiles/screen2.jpg)


Answers:
author: Sean Curtis
body: Why are you even clearing that? Can you not just remove that entirely?

Also if you do need to clear floats I'd recommend using the micro-clearfix technique instead of adding an element like that \<br\>

<http://nicolasgallagher.com/micro-clearfix-hack/>


Tags: administration

css

html

layout
Confluence Administrator
Asked by Joven Quinones:

Hi,

I wish to know if we can assign a user as confluence administrator? What's the default password for system administrator or where can I get since that's the only account that can deactivate users.


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: Basically you can create a a new admin user in your database in "If no Local User Exist" as we an see here:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights#RestoringPasswordsToRecoverAdminUserRights-Step2.ReplaceAdministratorPassword>  
But usually we recommend this, when local user admin does not exist.


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Joven,

You can actually set who is the Confluence Administrator via the [Global Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview). Also, I don't really think there's any default password for system administrators, but if one of your system administrators lost their password, maybe you could recover it by referring to this article : [Restoring Passwords](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights).

Cheers,

Joe


Tags: administration
If have macro of SEO KEYWORDS on Confluence Zen foundation ?
Asked by lily56:

I see macro of SEO title and meta description ,but it seems have no SEO keywords. How to find this macro?


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello There,

As the Zen foundation is a third-party plugin I would suggest you to in a first moment try to take a look at the following documentation about the plugin:

<http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Zen+Administration+Guide>

<http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Zen+User+Guide>

These are the official guides of the plugin, so this can be helpful. If you don't find here in the documentation then I would suggest you to make a contact with the plugin provider (Stepstone Tech) to confirm if there's a macro or not, you can contact them by the following:

[support@stepstonetech.com](mailto:support@stepstonetech.com)

1-206-441-5165

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: lily56
body: I mail to [support@stepstonetech.com](mailto:support@stepstonetech.com), but after three day there is no reply


Tags: zen
Restore a Confluence Site from a MySQL Backup
Asked by Luis Mayora:

Hi,

By mistake i forgot to backup my confluence site properly(not at work of course) but i would like to restore the site by using one of the mysql backups that currently have.

Is this possible since i dont have the regular xml backup file i think i can't. Any options that i could try


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Sure. Just import your backup to a new database.

After that, point your confluence to this database on your \<confluencehome\>/confluence.cfg.xml.

comments: author: Luis Mayora
body: will try this soon.


author: Harry Chan
body: Do note that if you don't have a backup of the Confluence home and changes have been made to e.g. attachments, these would be lost.


author: RianA
body: In addition to what Bruna said, if you don't have backup of Home directory you would lose all your attachments. Unless you stored your attachment inside database.
How to make the horizonal scrollbar show at the bottom of the page?
Asked by Thu Cung:

I have a long page that contains a table with multiple columns and rows. There is a scrollbar at the bottom of the page on the editor mode (Confluence). But after I saved the page and view it on the view mode, the horizontal scrollbar won't show until you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. How do I make this scroll bar show as I'm moving down the page so that I could navigate the page to see all columns? thanks.

Thu


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi Thu,

I suspect you request is similar to this one: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27557>

If I am correct then the table has the scrollbar at the bottom, but not the page itself, which makes it very hard to use. I suggest that you vote on the feature request above, to have this fixed and add it to your watchlist to be notified once a fix is delivered.

Kind regards,

Peter
How can we get a non-profit license for Confluence?
Asked by Kirby Russell:

we are a non-profit organization. we have a new server with Confluence, but the temporary license has expired. how can we obtain a non-profit license?

Kirby


Answers:
author: Janet Albion
body: Kirby,

You can apply at <http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/community-license-request>


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: You might want to ask this question on another day of the year.


Tags: charity