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"Include" access without full permissions
Asked by Miriam Liszewski:

We have a space which includes some pages we would like to share with a client. We do not want the clent to see other pages in the space or the comments on the shared pages.

I could create a new space and copy over each page manually but we will need to update both pages everytime there is a change.

I'd like to use the include macro, or something similar, so that the pages are always in sync. It appears I cannot use the include macro without actually giving them access to the original space/page which defeats the purpose.

Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Miriam,

the [MultiExcerpt-Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.confluence.multiexcerpt.MultiExcerptMacro/server/overview) gives you the opportunity to override security by including an excerpt from another Confluence space.

But I would be careful with disabling the security mechanisms from Confluence...


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, the include macro respects the permissions on the source data, you can't bypass that in any way.

comments: author: Miriam Liszewski
body: Is there any other way to do what I want to do without manually copying and pasting? Another macro or even a way to prevent users from viewing comments on a page?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Put the pages you want to share in a different space that is readable to all, but with very limited edit rights (and no comment at all possibly)
Is there a way to change the colors of the vertical markers in Roadmap Planner?
Asked by Jozi Brennan:

When creating my Roadmap Planner, I have added vertical markers for milestones. I would like to be able to change the colors of the vertical markers to easily distinguish between my milestones. Especially when I have a lot of horizontal bars on my roadmap and have to scroll up and down to see the dates, this becomes an apparent problem.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I am hoping someone will pipe up with a customization for this but in addition I think it would be a good in-product feature:

[As a user I would like to change the marker colors on the Roadmap planner](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52574)

Please vote on the ticket I created \^ and explain your use case in a comment to help get the attention of the development team.

You can already edit the markers to change their names so it would make sense to be able to change the color at the same time.

comments: author: Clara
body: I am using a hack, simply add another marker to get a thicker or double line. Hope this helps


Tags: advanced-roadmaps
I need to disable keyboard shortcuts. How? I'll take any kind of unofficial hack.
Asked by Travis Wellman:

I am a Firefox user, and part of my efficiency is I use the feature to search when I start typing. This conflicts with confluence mapping key presses to actions. I really hate this "feature". I need to be able to just start typing, like I do on every other web page in the world, and search for the text, not start editing the page or anything else.

Is there an official way to disable these shortcuts globally, or do I need to use a browser plugin, or other hack? Any suggestions will be wonderful. Thank you!


Answers:
author: mateusz_mis
body: I would like to use any WYSWIG editor but can't because jira catch my keydown and does't allow typing some characters


author: AnnWorley
body: Here are the instructions to disable keyboard shortcuts: [Keyboard shortcuts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/keyboard-shortcuts-139456.html#KeyboardShortcuts-DisablingandReEnablingKeyboardShortcuts). Please be aware of this limitation:

[Allow for disabling editor keyboard shortcuts](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-21908)

It sounds like your issue is not in the editor, but searching before editing, so disabling the shortcuts should help.

comments: author: Travis Wellman
body: Ann, the "enable general shortcuts" checkbox is unchecked.

Still, when I press C, it starts a new draft page. How do I disable this?


author: AnnWorley
body: I tested and it was the same for me. I opened a suggestion ticket:

[As a user I would like to disable keyboard shortcuts that launch the editor](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52576)

It would be great if you could explain your use case in a comment and vote on the request.


author: Travis Wellman
body: I commented and voted. Thanks Ann.


Tags: firefox

shortcut
How to update the wiki links in bulk in a Confluence page
Asked by Aditi Saini:

I have a Confluence page with 50+ wiki links and I wanted to update the target address of those links.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: One way is to:

1. create a test space
2. copy the page with the 50 links to the test space
3. export the test space to XML
4. find and replace the links as described in option 1 on [How Do I replace all 'hard' links to my old Base URL](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-replace-all-hard-links-to-my-old-base-url-284366235.html)
5. re-zip the back-up
6. delete the test space
7. import the XML backup
8. move the page with the 50 links back to the original space.

comments: author: Jeremy M
body: Would it not be handier just to replace the links on the page? It is effectively what you are already doing. There is no need to export it.


author: AnnWorley
body: There isn't a find/replace feature in the Confluence editor so he would have to find each one and type the new URL. If the links are all "wrong" in the same way, which I assumed based on his wanting to bulk update, it would be faster and more accurate to use find/replace with a text editor.

Another way would be to install the Source Editor plugin, use a text editor to edit the storage format, and then paste it back in.


author: Jeremy M
body: I agree, that is why anyone would simply copy and paste the links into a text editor like you stated as this would be most convenient. This would not require any export or importing of spaces.


author: AnnWorley
body: Sure that would work as long as there is no formatting on the page - if its all just text. But he would lose any macros, etc when pasting to the text editor.


author: Aditi Saini
body: Hi Ann and Jeremy,

I am able to update link text using the Confluence editor, however I need to update the link address as well since we are moving to another domain. Can you please advise.


author: Aditi Saini
body: Hi Ann,

Do you recommend me to use Add on "Confluence Source Editor"

Thanks,

Aditi


author: AnnWorley
body: Sure, that's one way to go. The source editor adds a **\<\>** at the top of the editor that let's you directly edit the storage format. You could copy the storage format to a text editor, search and replace, then paste it back in.


author: Aditi Saini
body: Ok, Thanks for your suggetsions. As I do not have the administrative rights, I will not be able to add the plugin my own. Is there any other way?

Thanks in advance


author: AnnWorley
body: If you have space administration permissions you can go with the XML export idea I posted initially.


author: Jeremy M
body: Dear Aditi,

I am afraid there is no other way than to find/replace those links. It is your only option here.

Friendly Regards,

Jeremy Mooiman

comments: author: Aditi Saini
body: Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for your response.

Best,  
Aditi


Tags: bulk-edit
Is it possible to create a super group using other groups as members
Asked by Carlos Eduarte:

I have 3 different groups created (g1, g2, g3). Can I create a supergroup and configure the members as members of the individual sub-groups ?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: For more about nested groups in Confluence please see [Managing Nested Groups](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/managing-nested-groups-229838455.html).

comments: author: Carlos Eduarte
body: I saw that my installation had this configured correctly. However, when I try to perform a 'join' operation from one sub-group to the parent group, I'm getting an error saying I don't have Permissions to perform the operation. I am an administrator. Is there something else that needs to be configured first ?


author: AnnWorley
body: Is it possible that the parent group is in an external directory and the external directory is read only? In that case you would not have permission to write to the read only directory by adding the subgroups. It is not common for Confluence administrators to set up write access to an external directory, like LDAP.

If the external directory is read-only with local groups you should be able to add groups from the external directory into parent groups that reside in the internal Confluence directory.


author: Jeremy M
body: Dear Carlos,

It is indeed possible to have Nested Groups within JIRA. However, you will have to enable it from the directories page and some other rules apply. See;

```
https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/managing-nested-groups-861253195.html?_ga=2.237073731.2113350370.1497029890-596414308.1495112396
```

Friendly Regards,

Jeremy Mooiman

Prepend


author: Davin Studer
body: There can also be performance degredation with turing on nested groups. We had a it turned on for a while, but it slowed the system down so we removed the nested groups.
Problem pasting some images into Confluence
Asked by Chris Bosso:

Sometimes I have trouble copy / pasting an image from say, Outlook email, into a Confluence page that is open for editing. No error is given. Ths usual "attach files" pop up doesn't appear. It silently does nothing. If I paste the image to Word or Paint first, then I can copy it into the intended Confluence page.

I can see that some similar problem seems to have been addressed in Feb of this year but somehow it doesn't fix my problem.

What gives?

I'm using Chrome latest. Outlook 2010.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi,

This is very common and probably related to a bug or things how browsers are handling copying images.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-28739>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-28739>

Looks like it is hard to reproduce due to many factors but as a workaround indeed it is required to use Paint or Word to be able to paste and image.


Tags: chrome

ms-outlook
Google Drive Connector - Link-button to Google Drive disappeared
Asked by Anian St?bler:

Hi,

We are currently not able to directly access documents for editing in Google Drive from Confluence. There used to be a button that appeared in the top right corner that allowed us to open a new tab with the relevant Google Doc or Spreadsheet. Now, this button has simply disappeared.

Re-installing the add-on or deleting and connecting files with confluence didn't help.

Thanks for your help!

Anian


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I found several add-ons for connecting Confluence Cloud with Google Drive. Please let me know which one you are using so I can try to reproduce the issue on my Cloud test instance.

comments: author: Anian St?bler
body: Dear Ann,

Sorry for not being more specific - it is the [Google Drive Connector by draw.io](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.driveconnector/cloud/overview).

Thanks for your help!


author: AnnWorley
body: Thanks, I installed it. Is the pop-out button indicated by the pink arrow the button that is missing on your instance?

![GoogleDocPop-out.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2123i2644C4EE1E9E1E42/image-dimensions/560x354?v=v2 "GoogleDocPop-out.png")

Please let me know if you have tried multiple browsers. I tried Safari and Chrome and the button was there in both.


author: Anian St?bler
body: Hi Ann,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Exactly this button is what is currently missing. I usually use Chrome, so is this where the error occurred first place. I tested now Firefox as well and exactly same error occurs.

Best,

Anian


author: AnnWorley
body: Thanks - that pretty much eliminates browser plugins as the issue.

I am afraid the next step is to open a ticket with Atlassian Cloud support at <https://getsupport.atlassian.com>.

Please let them know which plugin, what has been tried so far, and if possible, attach a screenshot of the missing button.


author: Anian St?bler
body: Hi Ann,

Will do. Once again thanks for your help.

Anian


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.driveconnector

cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I import from MindManager to draw.io?
Asked by Scott Hutcheson:

I have MindManager files and want to import them to draw.io on Confluence Server, is this possible?

I notice that draw.io content text is searchable, so attaching the MindManager files isn't enough.


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We started a Freemind import plugin for draw.io, but it was paused due to lack of interest. The idea would have been to MindManager to Freemind, then to draw.io.

comments: author: Mauricio GALVEZ
body: Any update Draw.io guys? the uservoice link is not working :'(


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We won't be implementing a MindManager importer.


author: Mauricio GALVEZ
body: Thanks for the fast feedback !


Tags: mind-map

draw.io

import

server
How to Log In to Confluence in Java
Asked by Sarah Chipman:

Hi All!

I'm trying to fetch page data from Confluence, however I need to authenticate myself first. I've tried searching around the web for solutions to this problem, but the posts that I've found are several years old. Here's my code:

```
ConfluenceAuthenticator auth = new ConfluenceAuthenticator();
HttpServletRequest servletRequest = ServletActionContext.getRequest();
HttpServletResponse servletResponse = ServletActionContext.getResponse();
auth.login(servletRequest,servletResponse,"sup","dawg",false);?
```

I don't know if this is the right approach, but it's what I've found so far. However, it doesn't work! Ultimately, Java is throwing a "class not found" error for "DefaultAuthenticator", and I believe that's because "DefaultHTTPClient" has been deprecated. At least, that's what the error log leads me to belive.

Upon revisiting the site I pulled this information from, it occurs to me that the post was originally made in 2013, so this is probably out of date.

I've been searching around for an answer that I can sort of wrap my head around and such, but I don't have a lot of experience with this sort of thing in the least, so any and every bit of help is much appreciated.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Anurag Gupta
body: hey can you help me out with this same type of problem . I wanna fetch data from confluence and save it on a json file .


author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: Why don't you use the Confluence REST API?

That's the clear, modern and documented way to remotely access Confluence.


Tags: authentication
Edit in Office - In Chrome
Asked by Samantha Starkey:

Hi All

I have been trying to find an answer to this however most of the posts are quite old and I don't know if anything has changed.

I would like to use the 'Edit in Office' function in Chrome. The option is there, however when I select it, it does nothing.

Is it possible to do this in Chrome now, if so, is there something else I need to set up in order to get this working.

I am using: Version 59.0.3071.86

(It is make or break as most of the company use Chrome)

Thank you in advance.


Answers:
author: Jeremy M
body: Dear Samantha,

I noticed too that this issue has been going for some time.

See: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-23322>

It seems that the only 'fix' possible, as you can read on the support ticket is to have the user allow the ''external protocol'' ms-word the first time the user clicks on the ''Edit Document'' link. Users who have already used the link but did not allow it.. chrome will remember your choice and will not open any ms-word link anymore.

I quote;

*So to make sure it?s allowed you need to close chrome, open the file "Local State" located in Users/\<userid\>\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data" and update the key ms-word to false"ms-word":falseThis was the cause for us why it worked for some users and not for others.*

I hope this will be of help to you,

Friendly Regards

Jeremy Mooiman


author: Samantha Starkey
body: Thank you for your help. We have tried these and it is working on a PC however not on MAC Chrome.

comments: author: Anand Aili
body: Same here, please guide if anyone solved this issue.


author: Jan-Peter Rusch
body: Hi Samantha,

"Edit in Office" in Chrome is definitly supported in the Confluence cloud version. I just tested an Excel file, could open it in Excel, make changes \& saving these back to a new attachment version.

When using Confluence server (6.2.1 in my case), it is working when:

\* An office attachment (Excel, Word,....) when embedded with an "Office Macro" (Open the macro browser \& type Excel, you'll be presented a Office Excel macro). After embedding the Excel macro you'll see a "Edit in Office" link above the office content.

\* Using the attachments listing of a page (Page menu, Attachments). You can open the attachment in Office by clicking "Edit in Office" on the right side of the listing

\* Using the attachment macro. Same as above, there will be an "Edit in Office" link

You won't see an "Edit in Office" link using Chrome, when you open an attachment in preview mode. In contrast to IE \& Firefox, the three dot menu is hidden in Chrome.

Hope this gives you a hint...


Tags: chrome

edit-in-office
Moving 'Confluence Questions' from one space to another?
Asked by LAS:

Is there a way of moving 'Questions' from one space to another?

Cheers,

Gaj


Answers:
author: Lauretha Rura
body: Heya [@LAS](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1127342) - yeap, you may use the \*Ask in a Space\* option to move the question. But, to use it you'd then need to first edit the question itself as outlined on the post that you've mentioned above.

(i) You will only be able to edit the question if you have the [Space Admin permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html) to the Space where that question is located. The options for edit \& delete will appear below the textbox of the question

Hope this helps :)

comments: author: cyledoux
body: The "Ask in a Space" option does not appear when I edit the question. I have Space Admin permissions AND I own the question.


author: LAS
body: Found it here - [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/How-do-we-move-a-question-from-one-space-into-another/qaq-p/143505#](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/How-do-we-move-a-question-from-one-space-into-another/qaq-p/143505#?)


Tags: questions-for-confluence
My requirement is to embed a slideshare presentation in a confluence page.
Asked by Gayathri Karanam:

I tried the steps provided. But the embedded slideshare is not successful. Do you really support slideshare? Please let me know.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I was able to embed a slideshare from this [sample page](https://www.slideshare.net/) only when I used the code from the "embed" field in an html macro. If you are on our Cloud offering that won't be available, though.

Please let me know what steps you were provided to embed the SlideShare presentation and I will try that method.

comments: author: hagzag
body: Any update on this I am using Atlassian Cloud offering and would like to embed a SlideShare presentation ...


author: Petros Bountis
body: Same requirement here:

\* Embed SlideShare presentation to Confluence Cloud


author: Nar Kumar C. - Narva Software
body: Hi [@hagzag](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2070310) and [@Petros Bountis](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1984229)

You can use our add-on: [HTML \& Iframe Macro for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221472/html-iframe-macro-for-confluence) for Confluence cloud.


author: Mukesh Kaushal
body: Yeah offcose check here [site](https://www.mukeshkaushal.com "site") is to amazing that provide you...


author: Mukesh Kaushal
body: I am able embale the slideshare for firstly you can check these types of [business](https://www.mukeshkaushal.com/what-is-business-benefits-profitservicesbusiness-ideas-communications-future/ "businezs")


author: Nar Kumar C. - Narva Software
body: If you are using Confluence Cloud, you can use our add-on: **[HTML Macro for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221472/html-macro-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)**

Simply copy the embed code from Slideshare and save it into HTML/Iframe macro body and your presentation will be embedded in the page. Let us know if you have any issue.

Best,

Kumar


Tags: slideshow
Confluence timeout error
Asked by Sekyeong Yoo:

Hi

We use Confluence 6.0.6

When I try to edit the page, I get the following error

8-Jun-2017 09:14:07.739 WARN \[ContainerBackgroundProcessor\[StandardEngine\[Standalone\]\]\] org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve.notifyStuckThreadDetected Thread "http-nio-8090-exec-11" (id=5760) has been active for 69,108 milliseconds (since 6/8/17 9:12 AM) to serve the same request for http://elecsvr:8090/conf/display/VB/BT_LAH_Diagnose_Modul_Climatronic_Erprobung_Validation?src=contextnavpagetreemode and may be stuck (configured threshold for this StuckThreadDetectionValve is 60 seconds). There is/are 4 thread(s) in total that are monitored by this Valve and may be stuck.  
java.lang.Throwable  
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)  
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(SocketInputStream.java:116)  
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:171)  
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:141)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.util.ReadAheadInputStream.fill(ReadAheadInputStream.java:101)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.util.ReadAheadInputStream.readFromUnderlyingStreamIfNecessary(ReadAheadInputStream.java:144)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.util.ReadAheadInputStream.read(ReadAheadInputStream.java:174)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:3008)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3469)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3459)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3900)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2527)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2680)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2501)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:1858)  
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:1966)  
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyPreparedStatement.executeQuery(NewProxyPreparedStatement.java:379)  
at net.java.ao.EntityManager.find(EntityManager.java:671)  
at net.java.ao.EntityManager.find(EntityManager.java:621)  


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The error from the catalina log is of limited help. Please also check the **\<confluence_home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log** for more specific editing or Synchrony errors.

The **\<confluence_home\>** directory is the path defined in the following file: **\<confluence_install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties**
I can't change profile picture
Asked by ???:

I was trying to change my profile picture.

It seemed working at first, but the earlier picture has come back.

I attempted many times and it happened again and again.

And it does not apply to the app as well.

How can I resolve this problem?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi there! Please let us know what URL you are using to change your profile picture for Confluence.