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'Not Permitted' Confluence page customization
Asked by Regis:

Hi There

My Confluence instance contains a set of spaces, each of them having its permission scheme defined the same way, with some groups.

I'd like to know whether anyone tried to customize the 'Not Permitted' message, displayed whenever a user tries \& accesses a page to which he's not granted access, so that, instead of a mere 'Not Permitted' message, he gets, for instance, the list of Space Admins he should get in touch with, to be granted access to the concerned space.

Is it possible to do that? Or if not, is it possible to add , to the message, at least a link to a Confluence page, which would list, for all spaces, their Space Admins?

Any comment/help is welcome :)

Thanks


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

It seems this would be possible by editing the velocity template of the page as we can see in this [answer](/questions/124288/edit-the-confluence-not-permitted-page-is-this-possible).
> This is possible by editing the [Velocity Template](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Velocity+Template+Overview) for that page, which can be found in the following location: *\<confluence_install_directory\>/confluence/pages/pagenotpermitted.vm*

I recommend to backup the file before attempting any modification so you can restore it in case something goes wrong.

Cheers!

Rodrigo

comments: author: Regis
body: Thanks Rodrigo.

For sure, we are not used modifying files without keeping the current version before :)


Tags: confluence-administration
Deleting a page
Asked by Karthik Manivasagam:

I have created a page by copying from some other page. I want to delete the page i created, but am unable to do so. In the document its mentioned that select delete option in Tools menu. But am not able to see any option for delete in the tools menu. Please help me on this


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Karthik,

Are you able to edit the page you've created?

If so you might remove it's content while the page is not removed.

Also you can go to the Space and see who created the Home Page of that space. Is very likely that this person is the creator and will be able to give you permission to remove that page, or remove it for you.

Cheers!


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Karthik,

contact your space administrator. You need a special permission to delete a page, he can give it to you or delete the page for you.

Regards

Steve


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Karthik,

contact your space administrator. You need a special permission to delete a page, he can give it to you or delete the page for you.

Regards

Steve

comments: author: Karthik Manivasagam
body: Thanks Steve. But where I can find the space admin name of the page I want to delete?


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: If you don not know that maybe there is a link in the footer 'contact yor administrator' or you ned to ask your servicedesk


Tags: delete

page
Child pages view on bottom of On-Demand pages
Asked by Moey Osta:

Hi There

Is there any way of being able to hide the child pages that is listed on the bottom of the individual pages for On Demand hosted services.

As we build on our Q\&A pages, the child pages list will grow significantly and we cannot have this visible to our external clients

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: BillA
body: It sounds like you have the Documentation theme enabled. If you change to the default theme you won't see children at the bottom of the page....only in the left sidebar. The only catch is that you'd need your admin to set it [sitewide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Site) (rather than at a space level) because you can't apply the default them to a space if the documentation theme is set as the site-level theme.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Datepicker in Confluence template
Asked by Alicia Miller:

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone knows a way to include a datepicker in a confluence template?

Thanks,

Alicia


Answers:
author: Alina Frey
body: Was this ever addressed? I'm looking for adding a date picker field in a template, and I can't find anything that would help.


author: Rade Martinovi?
body: I don't have the time to experiment, but, what would happen if you type double forward slash "//" in the template?

comments: author: MarcelW
body: I wasn't able to make this work. I had hopes it would.


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Alicia,

Our Add-on Page Tree Creator works a bit different than the Confluence blueprints / templates. The PTC-templates are based on normal confluence pages and therefore creating a PTC-template is as simple as creating a Confluence page. Use the tag __Current_Date__ to get the current date at any place on a page.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed).

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Alicia, afaik we do not have something that specific that works for the current version, nevertheless there is a *@currentDate* variable which may be of use, more about varibles in templates [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Create+from+Template+Macro).

comments: author: Mark Anderson
body: Hi, the double forward slash seems to work fine for picking a date when *editing* a page. However, what Alicia might be looking for (and what I'm definitely looking for) is a macro that lets page *viewers*see and pick a date from a date picker. For example, we want to offer page viewers the option of picking a beginning and ending date, and then show a list of articles that were published within that date range. Any ideas for that? Thanks.


Tags: confluence-administration

date-picker

template
Enabling What's New in Confluence 5.5.2
Asked by R Donato:

Hello,

We just upgraded to 5.5.2. But the What's New pop-up didn't display. I've enabled the plugin. But it still doesn't work when I log in. Is there something else I can try to get it to display when I log in?

Thanks much :)


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Go to the question mark icon \> What's new
Deleting old users from People Directory
Asked by Shreena Patel:

Hi there,

We have users that are no longer working at our organisation but they show up in the "People Directory". They are neither Confluence or JIRA users at current but have contributed or created pages in Confluence in the past.

Just wondering, is there a way to delete them without losing the work they had done? I believe with JIRA you can change the assignee or reporter to another user but with Confluence I'm not too sure what happens in terms of changing ownership or author rights. Is this possible?

Your support/ advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers!


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Shreena,

You can [disable users from Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Deleting+or+Deactivating+Users) which will basically impact in licensing not being counted against those.

As for not seeing them in the People Directory, this was a product design decision the took into consideration scenarios like [this one](http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7771?focusedCommentId=80416&amp;page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_80416) (customers looking for history of changes and content ownership). There is a discussion about the topic in [this ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16477), where the [ability to filter is listed](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16477?focusedCommentId=416274&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-416274).

comments: author: Shreena Patel
body: Thank you. I looked at the issue regarding filtering out deactivated users from the people directory however it does not say how to do this, even though it is resolved and fixed.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Shreena, sorry for not making that clear earlier, you can use the following:

```
http://my.confluence.com/dopeopledirectorysearch.action?showDeactivatedUsers=true
```

Changing the last parameter for to false will hide users


author: Shreena Patel
body: Sorry where do I do this? Will this work for Confluence OnDemand?


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Shreena, this has been tested under behind the firewall instances, since OnDemand instances have items that are different in its structure, that item may not be available. You may like to refer to the feature requests mentioned above.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Null Pointer Error exporting in UWC from MoinMoin to Confluence 4.3.7
Asked by Mike Beebe:

Hello,

I am using the UWV version 4.0 to convert our MoinMoin pages into Confluence 4.3.7. Everything appears to work right during the export phase, however, at the end, I receive this error:

2014-05-27 14:29:34,639 DEBUG \[main\] - Adding User and Date metadata - Complete  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,639 DEBUG \[main\] - Converting list in Page: CreatingNewParameters NewParameters 051006.txt  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,640 INFO \[main\] - time to convert 1ms  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,640 INFO \[main\] - ::: total time to convert files: 146 seconds.  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,640 DEBUG \[main\] - Engine Saves To Disk setting turned off.  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,640 DEBUG \[main\] - Checking Pages object is valid.  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,640 DEBUG \[main\] - --\> Pages object is valid.  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,642 DEBUG \[main\] - Page root set to: Home  
2014-05-27 14:29:34,642 DEBUG \[main\] - comparing: Home and Home  
java.lang.NullPointerException  
at com.atlassian.uwc.hierarchies.ContentHierarchy$VersionComparator.compare(ContentHierarchy.java:355)  
at java.util.TreeMap.compare(TreeMap.java:1188)  
at java.util.TreeMap.put(TreeMap.java:531)  
at java.util.TreeSet.add(TreeSet.java:255)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.hierarchies.HierarchyNode.addChild(HierarchyNode.java:54)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.hierarchies.ContentHierarchy.getPenultimateNode(ContentHierarchy.java:174)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.hierarchies.ContentHierarchy.buildHierarchy(ContentHierarchy.java:58)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.ConverterEngine.convert(ConverterEngine.java:415)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.ConverterEngine.convert(ConverterEngine.java:215)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.UWCCommandLineInterface.convert(UWCCommandLineInterface.java:175)  
at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.UWCCommandLineInterface.main(UWCCommandLineInterface.java:56)

I've tested the connection between UWC and our Confluence instance and it works fine. Google doesn't turn up much and neither does Atlassian Answers. Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated.


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

It seems there are some problems with the Moin Moin export to confluence using UWC as I could find this answer with the[same behavior](/questions/155019/can-the-current-uwc-work-with-confluence-5). According to the answer in that question, you may need to get in touch with Appfusions consultancy for some tweak in UWC if necessary.

The UWC may not work for all other wikis and that nullpointer is really hard to troubleshoot as there is not much information about it in the stack trace.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Mike Beebe
body: Hi, Rodrigo,

Yeah, I was afraid it'd probably be something like that. I'll chat up Appfusion and see what it would cost to get this thing to work.

Thanks!


author: Ugur ARPACI
body: Come on guys, anyone ?


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
Insert Variables to PDF Space Exports Header
Asked by Patrick Cox:

I would like to be able to insert some sort of variable to a space PDF export, so that the variables show-up in the header. I would like it to work as follows:

On the top-level of the page heirichy, you somehow set-up a few variables, like document number, and document name. Then, when you do a space export, it will pull those variables and insert it to the header.

I basically want to have one PDF layout set-up, and be able to create multiple documents from one Confluence project. Our long-term document storage system requires that we have details like document number and name, and that's going to change for each document that gets created.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi,

there are no ready-made variables for this. But it can be done with running elements. I made a description for this at [](/questions/268033/custom-pdf-stylesheet-headers-footers)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/268033/custom-pdf-stylesheet-headers-footers>

Good luck!
Table filter
Asked by Erin Miska:

I got super excited about this [plug-in](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter "plug-in") that allows you to filter tables, but then super bummed when I realized it doesn't work with Confluence OnDemand. Anyone know of a way to do something similar with OnDemand?


Answers:
author: Kate (izi)
body: Hello Erin,

[Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter) is available for Confluence Cloud starting from [Feb. 2015](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7013735).


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Erin, there are two possible routes to persue a solution for this: [there is a request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32197) to implement this feature natively in Confluence, which will eventually land in both OnDemand and BTF.

Another option is to enable this to function in OnDemand instances, as stated in [this request ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-7097).

For any of the paths to be chosen, please mind to post your concerns directly to the corresponding tickets, as means to increase their relevance. We do have reference on the criteria [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy).

In the meantime, may be worth mentioning that the tables can be sorted by row, when the top cells are headers.

comments: author: Erin Miska
body: Thanks, Guilherme. I've voted both of those up and commented on each to explain why we'd like to filter tables.

Tables sorted by columns is nice and all, but it will only get you so far when you have a very, very large table.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Cannot access port 8090 for confluence 5.5 in linux
Asked by Jerin ABraham:

Hi,

I installed confluence 5.5 in linux. I tried to connect to port 8090 I cant access. Help Please.


Answers:
author: Jerin ABraham
body: No port 8090 is not running. I did this:
> \<address\>vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables\</address\>

Append rule as follows:
> \<address\>-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m [tcp](http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/2010/11/11/how-to-open-a-port-number-in-iptableslinux/) -p tcp --dport**port_number**-j [ACCEPT](http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/2010/11/11/how-to-open-a-port-number-in-iptableslinux/)\</address\>\<address\>-make sure you change the ****port_number****to actual number (8090 or 8088)\</address\>

Restart iptables:
> \<address\># /etc/init.d/iptables restart\</address\>

[Verify](http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/2010/11/11/how-to-open-a-port-number-in-iptableslinux/) that port is open:
> \<address\># [netstat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstat "Netstat") -tulpn \| less\</address\>\<address\> \</address\>\<address\> \</address\>\<address\>still not working. What to do?\</address\>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What does your atlassian-confluence.log say? And the catalina.out file too?

What does "netstat -plant \| grep 8090" get back? (Or, a lot less detailed, but should be independent of unix flavour, just "netstat -a \| grep 8090"

But seriously, log files are your friend.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Jerin,  

I'd run the following command against your Linux box to see if indeed Confluence is running under 8090:

netstat -ntpl

Also, take a look in the atlassian-confluence.log to see if you can find an error there.  
Cheers,

wz
Chinese, Japanese and Russian characters are not encoded on Confluence page after some time the page has been posted
Asked by Marina Mikhayleva:

When I create and save a Confluence page and use Chinese/Japanese/Russian characters, they are encoded correctly. But in some time (several days?) they turn into question marks, this change is not displayed in the history and none of the previous versions of the page contain correct encoding.

How can I avoid this error?


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Marina, this issue seems to be related to database encoding. You may confirm whether your database is configured according to our documentation: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Configuration)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Configuration>

Cheers

comments: author: Marina Mikhayleva
body: hi Tiago, thanks a lot for your reply! will do

Marina


Tags: language-ja
Multi-Vote Plugin Data
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

Does anyone happen to know where data is stored for the Multi-Vote plugin? I assume the DB, but am having difficulty finding the table it resides in.


Answers:
author: MartinS
body: Hey Trevor, I am the main developer of Multivote.

Currently, the poll data is stored in page properties, so the place to look for them is the OS_PROPERTY table, with ENTITY_ID being the ID of the page/comment/blog post that contains the multivote.

The key is in the format "multivote.\<table_id\>.\<item_id\>", where "table_id" is the identifier of the whole vote, and "item_id" is the identifier of the vote line.

But beware, this might change in the future, I have already implemented a version that uses [Active Objects](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Active+Objects) instead and will release it at some point in the future.  
In this case, the vote data will be contained in tables prefixed with AO_ and probably containing "MULTIVOTE" somewhere. Please watch the release notes of future Multivote versions for information on this.

You can check the source code of Multivote here: [](https://bitbucket.org/tngtech/multivote-for-confluence.)<https://bitbucket.org/tngtech/multivote-for-confluence>.

If I can find the time, I will provide some documentation on how to extract all Multivote Data from the database, see [MV-40](https://tngtech-oss.atlassian.net/browse/MV-40 "Provide Documentation on how to back up Multivote data").

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to respond!


Tags: addon-com.tngtech.confluence.plugin.multivote
SQL Query for Space page structure
Asked by eric brown:

How do I query the confluence database to pull back all the pages for a particular space?


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi Eric,

Just replace the \<spacename\> below with the name of the particular space you want:

```
SELECT contentid,title FROM content WHERE prevver IS NULL AND content_status='current' AND spaceid=(SELECT spaceid FROM spaces WHERE spacename='&lt;spacename&gt;');
```

Best regards,

Felipe Alencastro
OnDemand download list is empty
Asked by Fringe Technology:

Am looking for the most recent OnDemand download version, and the list is currently empty:

[](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-od)<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-od>

I need to get 5.5-OD-24 for a migration. If there are no downloads in the list, does that mean we can go with the publicly released 5.5 version instead if doing a migration from OnDemand to Download this week?


Answers:
author: LucasA
body: Hi Shari,

Yes, you can proceed with regular Confluence version.

Please go ahead and don't hesitate in ask for help if needed, raising a support ticket at [](https://support.atlassian.com.)<https://support.atlassian.com>.

Cheers,

Lucas Lima


Tags: cloud

download

version
Confluence Wiki markup styler plugin
Asked by Hans-Peter Geier:

Hi, I'm wondering what happened to the Confluence Wiki Markup Styler plugin.

On its Atlassian marketplace web site, there is only a version for Confluence 4 but not for Confluence 5. The links to the issue/request tracker ([labs.atlassian.com](http://labs.atlassian.com)) is broken.

I wanted to ask regarding a 5.x compatible version of this plugin but cannot even find a place to request or ask this?


Answers:
author: Hans-Peter Geier
body: Just got an email to "be a good Atlassian citizen" and answer or accept my question.

I would prefer if Atlassian product managers were better citizens and not continue to cancel good features without asking customers. The mentioned feature was a good one, and it is certainly not costing a lot of work to port it from Confluence 5.2 to 5.5, especially given that there have been no big changes within the editor.

So, to answer my own question, I'm once more disappointed with Atlassian.


author: Petch
body: This plugin is not being developed any more.

However the source code is still available and can be forked from [here](https://bitbucket.org/Craig_Petchell/wiki-styler-plugin/) if you have an interest in making it work.

comments: author: Hans-Peter Geier
body: this is a pity. Atlassian had provided this plugin as kinda mitigation for the removal of the Wiki syntax, which is still a concern for many users. It also helps to cope with bugs in (or strange behavior of) the current editor, to understand what's going on.

Despite of this aspect, advanced users find it very useful to have this tool available, and some use it because they use it in Microsoft Word as well and are used to see these symbols and miss them without this feature.

I do not plan to use the source code.

Can we request Atlassian to continue providing this plugin? Or one of your partners?


author: Dave Meyer
body: Hi Hans Peter,

The [Wiki Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.wiki), which is developed and supported by one of our partners, allows you to write standard wiki markup inside of macro bodies that will render correctly on Confluence pages.

Regards,

Dave


author: Hans-Peter Geier
body: Hi Dave, this is not doing the same.

The Wiki Plugin is for writing in the Confluence 3.x Wiki language. (this is your link)

The Wiki Markup Styler provides the button in the editor which displays invisible characters (like new-line and new-paragraph), similiar as in MS-Word.

I'm interested in the latter.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Multiple tags search in answers
Asked by Rodrigo Girardi Adami:

Hi there!

Is there a way to search for multiple tags in answers instead of just one at a time?

E.G. By using this URL you'll search for confluence questions, however if I want to search for "Confluence" and "upgrade" questions, how would I use the tagging system?

Thanks for any advice! :)

Rodrigo


Answers:
author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Yes, Enter in the quick search

\[confluence\] \[free\]

This searches for confluence or free tags

Enter in the quick search

\[confluence\] + \[free\]

This searches for confluence and free tags

If you click the down arrow then enter the tags without the brackets

comments: author: Norman Abramovitz
body: I am use to using the plus symbol, but I believe you can use the word 'and' as well

\[confluence\] and \[free\]

or in the advanced search tags

confluence and free


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Perfect answer :D

Thanks a lot!

Cheers!


Tags: community