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Information about empty pages in Confluence page tree
Asked by danilo2:

Hi! I'm using confluence for long time and I'm searching a functionality that is very important to me.

Opening a page in confluence takes about 5 - 10 seconds. This time is ok for my needs. The problem is that when you have a lot of pages and nested pages, some pages are used only to group topics (they are used as folders) and does not contain any data. Sometimes hovewer these pages contain data, which is for example overview of research presented in underlying pages.

The poblem appears when you want to read all the pages. If you have a lot of nested pages and you look at the page tree on the left (documentation theme) you do not see immidiately which pages are empty and which are not. So to read everything you have to see through all the pages which took 5 - 10 seconds every empty page and thats very annoying :(

Of course you can say, that I can use always empty pages as grouping folders and leaves - pages as pages that contain content, but then the internal logic is not so good and we are breaking the good stuff confluence brings.

This appears as big problem for me and my team :(

So the queston is - how can I set some other color or underline the names of the pages that are empty on the page tree view (on the left of documentation theme).


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: I do not think there is a way to do that. You could follow a convention (i.e.: starting empty page titles with an underscore '_') to easily recognize empty pages.

In any case, I do not think that a time of 5-10 seconds is normal to open a page. May be you want to have a loog at [Performance Tuning](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Performance+Tuning) or increase your server specs.


Tags: documentation

page-tree
How to reset systemadmin password
Asked by Klaus Leiter:

I am using Confluence On Demand hosted by atlassian. I hav the typical anonluence admin rights but for installing plugins one has to login as system administrator.

I was setting up the <https://watercryst-wiki.atlassian.net/> -appllication - so i am the only systemadministrator, but i cannnot access it.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You don't get those rights for OnDemand. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>

comments: author: Klaus Leiter
body: Thank you Nic, for this information !

But still I have some problems with the

### Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros 2.0-studio1-r8737 {#toc-hId-1510159875}

plug-in.  

The Macro-Browser refuses to work, after I have tried to activate all the macro-Mudule within this plug in. The Macro-Browser is working well when I deactivate the plug in itself.

Are there at least some modules within the plug-in compatible with the macro-browser, which I can activate? For instance I would loke to have a Button-macro etc.  

<br />


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd suggest you raise that with Atlassian support - when plugins misbehave, the first place to check is the logs, which you can't do directly.


Tags: cloud
Confluence does not obey the browser's en-US language setting
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

I've installed the US English language pack. It works if I switch my user setting within Confluence to US English, but does not work if I have that set to obey the browser setting. (My browser is set to US English, of course.)

The browser setting is obeyed if I set it to French. I wonder if Confluence can't handle two-level language codes from the browser (that is, when it gets en-US, it just sees en). Alternatively, I wonder if the US English language pack, which is community sourced, does not set its code correctly. So two questions:

1) Do two-level language codes from the browser work in Confluence?

2) If so, what in the language pack indicates the language code for the pack? Is it the pack name, or something else? (FYI -- I've looked for this info in the plugin docs, and haven't found anything.)

I don't want to make the config change that makes Confluence ignore the browser setting because we have UK users who like your default spelling.

We're using Confluence 4.0.4.


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Turns out this is a known bug: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23220](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23220#comment-350883) . Vote on it if you want it fixed.


Tags: language
Has anyone gotten en-US or other two-level language browser settings to work?
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

I've been trying to get Confluence to obey the browser US English setting to work. In some cases, the browser is obeyed -- such as if I change my language to French. It occurs to me that perhaps the problem is that Confluence only pays attention to the first part (en) of the language code, and ignors the "US" part. Does the browser setting alone (with the user's language setting in Confluence set to obey the browser setting) work for such seconday language settings for anyone? (That would be valuable info for me, because if it does work in other situations, then the problem may be in the way that the US language pack specifies the language code.)

FYI, if I change my user setting within Confluence explicitly to US English, the language pack does work.


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: It isn't clear if this applies to all two-level codes (such as Canadian French), but at least for US English it is a known bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23220#comment-350883>.


Tags: language
How I rearrange the hierarchy in a space?
Asked by Andrew Busey:

It says when I "View in Hierarchy" that I can move the pages. Put it doesn't work in either Chrome or Safari in the Mac. It just moves the text to wherever I drag it, it doesn't nest it.


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: It works for me in Chrome.

To make something a child of another page, drop it directly on the other page -- if the horizontal line appears above or below the page, then the moved page will be a sibling.


Tags: cloud
How can I apply CSS, enable CSS for my OnDemand Wiki?
Asked by Michael Oltman:

I attempted to follow the instructions on the OnDemand documentation but it doesn't appear these options are present anymore (or that I have it configured to show me these options).

Can you point me to how to use CSS on my Confluence Wiki for my OnDemand configuration?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: As you suspected, this is a restricted function: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand#RestrictedFunctionsinAtlassianOnDemand-Confluence>

We'll look at getting that documentation fixed up.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Er, I'd point you at the document you've pointed to - could you explain what has gone wrong? (after you've checked the security config it points to?)

comments: author: Michael Oltman
body: when I go to my Administration - by selecting Administration from my name in the upper-right corner - I do not get any of the options stated in the document. There is no Confluence Admin section in my admin options and therefore no ****Confluence Admin** \> Security Configuration** option. Also, Security Configuration isn't an option under Wiki.![](../../upfiles/Capture_28.PNG)


author: Michael Oltman
body: It appears from other links I've followed that this feature may not be available in OnDemand because its only in the system admin screens and not the wiki admin screens. Would like to confirm that and see if there are any alternatives in OnDemand.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

css
Migrating Confluence 4.3 linux to windows - not all plugins transferred
Asked by Jacob Boyko:

I'm in the process of migrating our production Confluence 4.3.0 to a new windows server:

I've got the new system up and running, but not all of the user installed plugins have migrated.

\* System Info:

\*\* Server live:

\*\*\* Ubuntu Linux 2.6.31-14-server; MySQL 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.

\*\* Server test:

\*\*\* Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit; MySQL 5.5.28.

\* The version of Confluence is the same in both instances.

\* I've used an XML backup performed when no other users are online.

\* I've synced the home directories, excluding some variations in the {{confluence.cfg.xml}} (license, connection URL to isolate from live system)

Interestingly, many of the User-installed Plugins appear in the test server under System Plugins, and the Configuration sidebar has different options for plugins.

<br />


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: As we saw through the ticket raised by you on Atlassian Support, it was caused by data migration failure was caused by an oversight in the MySQL max allowed packet size configuration.

The steps reproduced:

1. Choosing **InnoDB ONLY** during install, and:

2.

```
[mysqld]collation-server=utf8_binmax_allowed_packet=32M
```

Kind Regards


Tags: app

linux

migration

windows
Custom Colour Scheme Doesn't Include Open Notifications
Asked by Bristow:

I think the question asks it all but when editing the colour scheme using the custom colour scheme tool within the administrator section I can't set the colour of the 'Open Notifications' link as it isn't covered by the "**Top Bar Menu Selected Background**", as I would have assumed. So currently Administrator and Browse high light as read but Open Notifications high lights as light blue.

![](../../../upfiles/annoying.PNG)

Cheers for any assistance.


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: This seems to be a minor bug to me. I have created a bug report for this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26876> Please check the bug report for the workaround :)

comments: author: Bristow
body: Cheers for the reply, you've posted some code as a work around. I'm a new Confluence Admin/User, where should I put this code?

Nvm, found it;

Admin \> Look and Feel \> Stylesheet \> Global Stylesheet
Query regarding Wiki Confluence
Asked by Swati Gandhi:

1.While exporting page(s) to PDF format, I am able to implement CSS features in PDF Stylesheet but the HTML properties in PDF Layout are not getting implemented. Please let me know a way out for the same.

Also, I am not able to implement html based macros as we are not entitled to install any additional plugin, unless they are bundled.

2. To export page (s) to WORD or HTML format, is there any way to implement custom based templates?


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: The PDF does only allow you specify CSS styling. I don't think 1 or 2 can be done for OnDemand. There may be workarounds on a downloaded instance of Confluence.


Tags: cloud
How users' password are saved in Confluence
Asked by Karin Chang:

We would like to know how users' login credentials are saved in Confluence and make sure that the user password is not stored in plaintext in Confluence server or config files. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: From [Restoring Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights#RestoringPasswordsToRecoverAdminUserRights-Step2.ReplaceAdministratorPassword "Replace Administrator Password"):
> Confluence does not store passwords in plain text in the database, but uses hashes computed from the original password.


Tags: password
How to display other user details than name and email?
Asked by Daniela Scheiwe:

Hi,

I need to access the current user details from a macro. I can use $action.remoteUser to get name and mail address, but i need to access the other details as well (phone, IM...)

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Daniela Scheiwe
body: The additional profile information doesn't seem to be accessible by user macros. I now used the SQL-Macro and I'm pretty happy with the result.


author: David Toussaint _Communardo_
body: Hi,

did you have a look at the [User Profile Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile) for Confluence? It my just be what you're looking for...

Chers, David

comments: author: Daniela Scheiwe
body: Thanks for your answer.

This plugin seems to solve our problem, but we do not want to spend the money. I'm sure there must be a way to access the profile data that is already existing in confluence :(


author: David Toussaint _Communardo_
body: If the details exist allready in confluence, the best way then is probably to write a usermacro for exactly what you need.


Tags: detail

profile

user
calendar option in the menu bar
Asked by SherryX:

We just installed Team Calendar(v2.2.2) plugin for confluence (v3.5.17), as we are also using Theme Builder plugin, we have customised the menu bar as following:

```
{tools}{builder-hide:action=dashboard,login,dologin|user=@anonymous}{menubar:id=user} {compound-menuitem:edit|caption=Edit|icon=pencil2|size=16px} {menuitem}{menuicon:documents_new|size=16px}Add  {wikimenu}{webui-list:system.content.add|separators=true}{wikimenu}{compound-menuitem:newspace|caption=New Space|icon=back} {menuitem} {menuitem}{menuicon:gears|size=16px}Tools  {wikimenu}{webui-list:system.content.action|separators=true}{wikimenu}{menuitem}{viewmenu}{menubar}{builder-hide}{tools}
```

It appears that the menu doesn't have calendar included, so I can't add a new calendar.

Anyone can help? Thanks


Answers:
author: SherryX
body: thanks, Rodrigo. I asked the question in adaptavist community, I don't know exactly how to do it yet, but seems I have to create a user macro and add my menu.

Thanks


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Sherry,

That's hard. I don't have much knowledge in the adaptavist theme builder plugin, but I believe that you could momentarily disable the plugin and double check if the Team calendar appear as expected. If yes, then the plugin is correctly working so we are sure that the problem lies in the custom menu.

I suggest to get in touch with adaptavist support and they might know how to put the calendar on the custom menu.

I'll keep this question open so others may know how to accomplish this.

Cheers,

Rodrigo Girardi Adami


Tags: confluence-app

team-calendars-for-confluence
Turning off "Notify watchers" does not work?
Asked by Christian Willoch:

Hi,

We are trying to reduce the amount of unecessary notifications when the team is getting more and more mature on using Confluence.

So I have asked them to be more aware of the Notify watchers checkbox, turning this off when they are not making notifyable changes. But it seems as this doesn't work as expected. Even when turning off the checkbox, all watchers gets a notification.

Is it a bug, or is there something we are overlooking?

Regards,

Christian Willoch

Oslo, Norway


Answers:
author: Bruno Rosa
body: Hi Christian, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Answering to your question, I don't believe this is a bug, at least not one that I'm aware of. I'm not sure if this is still happening, seeing the date you've commented here. If so, would you mind to create a ticket at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) so that we can further investigate what's happening? Also, is your instance hosted locally (BTF) or is a OnDemand instance?

Cheers,

Bruno Rosa


Tags: notification
Email notifications displays Show if/Hide if macro content
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Dear All,

I am experimenting with show if/hide if macro in order to show/hide some user groiup specific content on the same page.

However, when users watch the page the email notiofication that they receive contains all changes which normally ther aaren't allowed to view.

Is there a way to get around of this issue or a settings that I forget to do?

Cheers,

Selcuk


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Selcuk,

I must say that I'm not very familiar with this macro. But the problem that you are experiencing is due that one thing is browser rendered, and the other is mailed.

While browser has css, and has the ability to hide stuff, mail doesn't.

I believe what you could do is tweak the mail template, and then you could add some hiding in the mail itself

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+eMail+Templates>

Not sure how this would be done, but this gives you a better way to pursue your problem.

Cheers,

Guilherme

comments: author: Selcuk Savas
body: Thanks Guilherm.

I do not have access to the server but we are about the establish a staging server. I'll test it on it.

Cheers,

Selcuk


Tags: notification
Applied American English language pack, but still shows "favourites"
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

I applied the American English language pack <https://translations.atlassian.com/dashboard/download?lang=en_US> (the 4.0.4 version, to match our install), changed the default site language, and it doesn't seem to be working. For example, the word "Favourite" is still being spelled in the UK way in the page view. When I look in the preview for the Favourites macro in the macro browser, it correctly shows "favorite", but every other time the word shows it is the other way.

I understand this pack is only 96% complete, but I unpacked the jar and looked in the appropriate file, and it does show the correction. I've also cleared my cookies (in case there was an old setting saved), checked my browser setting (set to US English), and re-logged in.

Any clue why this wouldn't be working?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Turns out there's a known bug. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23220#comment-350883> , where Confluence doesn't use the browser setting in the case of en-US.

So there is no proper solution, but what I mentioned above does get rid of "favourites" and the like -- set your profile to use US English. There's another way, too: on the login screen, click on the US English link. (Both the default and US English show as "English", so either look at the URL to see which setting you used or put in the script code shown in [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/31760/how-to-replace-english-uk-with-english-us](/questions/31760/how-to-replace-english-uk-with-english-us) so the link indicates which is the British version.

BTW, I ended up using the latest version of the language pack (4.3.4), which says it is 99% complete, and it worked, even though I'm on 4.0.4.


author: Steve Matt
body: Seriously...in three years there has been no solution/fix/professional treatment for this simple language issue?

Is there or is there not a simple fix for this unbelievably simple confluence language error?


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I made some progress. If I go to my settings (in Confluence), and change "Detect Browser Setting" to force to US English, then it works.  

However, it should have worked anyway, since my browser is set to US English. I'm trying to figure out why that doesn't work. (I'm trying to fix this for all my US users, and I don't want to tell everyone they have to do the setting in Confluence.)


Tags: favourite

language
Making {toc} macro links heading size
Asked by Jennifer S:

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible to make the links in a table of contents the size of headers? For example, we have an instance where a user would like to make a table of contents list the size of Heading 3.

If anyone has a trick to doing this I would really appreciate it!

<br />

Thank you!

Jennifer


Answers:
author: Jennifer S
body: Thank you for the above answer. I probably should have mentioned we were using Confluence 4.3. Since we have the source editor plugin installed, I was able to make the table of contents a heading by editing the storage format with something like:

```
<h5><ac:macro ac:name="toc">
<ac:parameter ac:name="maxLevel">5</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="type">flat</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="separator">pipe</ac:parameter>
</ac:macro>
</h5>
```


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: This is a touch complicated because the div that contains the TOC doesn't have a class or ID. So, give it one.

Put in a div macro. Give it a class name, such as "toc".

Put the TOC macro inside that div.

Add a CSS stylesheet macro, and put in your styling info, such as this:

.toc div ul li{font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:24pt}

You'll need to play around with the settings to get exactly what you want.

FYI -- it is really helpful (maybe necessary for this kind of thing) to have something like Firebug or the equivalent so you can see the CSS settings.
Attachments macro - Commands are not working, System Error
Asked by Andreas Gounaris:

In an effort to simplify a page for HR admins that will be used to upload/download attachments, I have used the attachments macro.

Since I have documents related to 3 areas, I used three instances of the attachments macro and each one displays attachments hosted in another page in the space. This is done using the macro parameter Page Title.

The upload and download actions are working fine. However, non of the commands (Properties, View, Edit in office (for such files) or Remove works. It seems that the path to the attachment is not valid. I see exceptions (System Error page) mentioning a NullPointerException or a Page Not Fount when executing the View command.

When doing this from the page that hosts the attachments, it does fine.

Note that the hosting pages are stored in the root of the space cause they shouldn't be browsed from a non-privileged user.

Could you please help?


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Andreas,

Have this ever worked before? If the path seems invalid, can you check that your Server Base URL in Confluence Admin \> General Configuration matches the URL you're using to access Confluence?

Your full logs would also help to shed some light to this issue, so you might want to create a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> with your logs so we can assist you further.

Cheers.

comments: author: Andreas Gounaris
body: I've opened a ticket, the human answer plus the one came from Hercules system is the same: umlaut characters in the URL.

This is not the case however, the file name is in pure latin, the file can be downloaded normally if you click on it. Commands however are not working, except if you do that in the original page that hosts them.


author: Andreas Gounaris
body: I wonder if somebody else is using the attachment macro the way I do, cause it doesn't work for me. All file names are clean, char set is in UTF8, don't know what else to try except keeping the attachments in the same page with the macro.I'll try an update to latest version hoping that the problem will be solved!


Tags: attachment

macro