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Confluence HipChat integration
Asked by anthonyikeda:

Any plans to integrate HipChat into Confluence?

Anthony


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you want chat in Confluence check out the [Confluence Chat](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.chat) addon.


author: Jeff Thomas
body: Anthony: There is the [HipChat for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.hipchat.confluence-hipchat) plugin that provides some integration. It does not support newer versions of Confluence yet.


author: anthonyikeda
body: I was thinking more along the lines of in app integration - i.e. like a kind of Facebook chat for Confluence.

So we can actually message within Confluence like Facebook Messenger.

comments: author: Karen_Mustain
body: Hi Anthony,

Did you ever find a solution to have a Facebook type chat in Conflunece?

Karen


Tags: hipchat
Custom Field from JIRA causes JIRA Issues macro to not render in Confluence
Asked by Bill Boulden:

I have a Confluence page that's embedding a JIRA issues macro.

We have quite a few custom fields and the macro sometimes breaks based on how much or how little data is returned.

Here is flavor one of the JQL query:

```
project = (project name) AND issuetype = "(issue type)" AND status in (Open, "In Progress", Reopened) and cf[11201] = '(field setting)' ORDER BY cf[11208] ASC, cf[11206] ASC, createdDate DESC
```

This returns an issue list just fine.

Then if the search is broadened by removing the custom field we were filtering on:

```
project = (project name) AND issuetype = "(issue type)" AND status in (Open, "In Progress", Reopened) ORDER BY cf[11208] ASC, cf[11206] ASC, createdDate DESC
```

Suddenly the macro, embedded, displays:  
Error rendering macro 'jira' : com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: java.io.IOException: Error on line 210: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.


Answers:
author: Bill Boulden
body: We changed up which Macro we were using. We were using the standard JIRA macro and we switched to JIRA Saved Filter Select Columns


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: What kind of a custom field is it? I am guessing that one of the possible values of that field has a special character that breaks the rendering.

comments: author: Bill Boulden
body: No, Jobin, Strangely, it's just a date field! And for all values it appears to be either a successful date, or NULL. Nothing else, that I can see! There are only 37 records that have this field filled in so far so it was easy to see them all and verify there's nothin' but Dates and Nulls here.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: That is indeed strange. You might want to raise a support ticket. And if you have free time, narrow down the list of issues to find if there is one specific issue that is breaking it ;)
Setting a page to auto expire
Asked by Asif Khan:

Hi,

It is possible to set a confluence page to automatically expire, so that the creater and watchers of the page will be sent a notification after a set amount of time (say 3 months) to review the contents or the page and make an update.

This would be particularly useful for wiki pages for ever changing IT systems. Quite often wiki pages go out of date, so it would be good to have an automated reminder setup which will email watchers and creator.

Thanks,

Asif Khan

Citi, London


Answers:
author: Brian
body: Hi Asif,

Confluence does not offer this functionality out-of-the-box. There are some third-party plugins that may provide what you're looking for, such as Ad-Hoc Workflows and the Archiving Plugin.

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

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving;jsessionid=uvbi6k17b2e2d4i4bvktldef>

Hope this helps!


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: I think, the workflow plugin will have this functionality. You will have a workflow for every page: draft and published for example. Then you can have a process to set a page in draft again, maybe after 3 month to update this wiki-page. See more in atlassian marketplace: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow>

You can try this plugin for free.

comments: author: Asif Khan
body: This is great. Thanks very much for the quick reply.


author: Asif Khan
body: Thanks very much Brian and Christina for the solution.
Ondemand sysadmin
Asked by Santiago:

I need to change permissions since I took my own permissions and Im the administrator, to a space but since is an ondemand I have no sysadmin level, what can I do?

thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: You won't be able to remove your administrative permissions if you are the only administrator on the system (other than the sysadmin). Same thing for spaces. There are checks in place to avoid removing administrators of a space and leaving it without administrators. If you are an administrator and don't have permissions for a specific space, you should find the administrator of that space to correct the situation.

Hope that clarifies :)

Cheers!


author: Santiago
body: Fortunatelly I have set another user as an administrator, but if your user has no permissions and you are the ONLY administrator you could be lock out, the sysadmin role in ondemand is atlassian so yes you need to be sysadmin if you are the administrator but have no permissions for a specific space


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Changing space permissions doesn't need sysadmin role. Space admins or Confluence Administrators can do that.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Search and replace in an entire space - is this possible?
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Morning,

Is it possible to run a Search and replace in an entire space? I can't see anything in the docs about it.

I'm running 4.3.7 download.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: No, this function is not availible in confluence. There was a Plugin for that, but it works only until 3.5

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Christina,

Thanks, I thought not, but there's no harm in asking is there? :)

Cheers.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Christina,

Your wish...

<https://jira.atlassian.com/i#browse/CONF-31072>


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [How to globally search and modify content](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+globally+search+and+modify+content)

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Bob, thanks. My problem is, at the moment, I only have space level admin, so am limited in what I can do. I'm trying to change that.

Cheers.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You should only need permission to update the page.


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Yes, it is the right place, absolutly :-). I would appreciate this function in confluence as well. Why you don't create a feature request for that? I would vote ;-)  

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF


Tags: replace

search

space
How to Show Dependancy in Confluence?
Asked by Phillip Yero:

Part of how we use Confluence is for project estimates; and, obviously, some projects are dependant on others (Project A must be finished before Project B). Is there any way to show this dependancy between one project estimate page and another?


Answers:
author: Phillip Yero
body: Yeah, that's what we have been doing. I was just wondering if there was another, more visible way of doing it.


author: HosseinA
body: hi, how about tracking projects in one page ( one table) with status column and links to redirect to the projects page?


Tags: dependency
Can we change the formatting of the alert/notification that a page is being edited?
Asked by banson:

It's not easy to see that small alert at the top of the page when you try to edit a page that is already being edited. Is there a CSS file or something we can modify so that text is red, orange, bold, etc.to decrease the instances of people writing over people's changes?

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Next time you see this warning, right click the error message in your browser and select Inspect Element. That will give you the generated CSS you need to change it. Then you can add custom CSS in your admin panel (Look and Feel \> Stylesheet). Be sure to use !important at the end of each style definition you want to override, so that your custom setting takes precendence. For example:

.some-style-selector {

some-style: some-value !important;

}
Lost local admin password to Confluence
Asked by Per Olav Loevbak:

Hi!

How can I reset my Confluence Admin Password...?

I have a local installation of Jira and Confluence at my home computer, for testing and piloting purposes. I have had only one physical user with admin rights (me), and I use LastPass to store my passwords and to semi-automatically log in to both.

Today I upgraded both Jira and Confluence. I had to install a fresh version of Jira, because of XML-errors when trying to upgrade. This led me to change my Jira password on the new installation - without taking note of the old... And I can log into Jira successfully, using the new password (via LastPass).

The problem is that the OLD password for Jira/Confluence obviuosly has been stored somewhere. I first tried an upgrade of Confluence, and secondly a fresh install (uninstall + install). Both times I was led directly to a standard log in window, and not a window to define a new admin user w/password.

So the question is how I reset my local Confluence Admin password - OR how to "clean" the computer totally from previous installations, so that I am asked for a new Admin user w/password after a fresh install...

Thanks in advance for any advice!


Answers:
author: Per Olav Loevbak
body: Thanks, but no luck. I am an IT user, not a database specialist :-)   

Even though I learnt a lot from my 2 hours trying, and even managed to connect to the database, I was not able to retract the necessary info...   

So I went the "hard" way, and uninstalled everything, and was able to get a clean new version up and running. Lost my "test-database", but no crisis...   

But thanks, anyway :-)


author: Jeff Thomas
body: Try the documentation for [recovering the admin password](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights).


Tags: install

password

reset
Diagramly for confluence 5.3?
Asked by Derek Finley:

Are you guys planning to add support for Diagramly and Confluence 5.3? Currently, the Diagramly plugin is broken in version 5.3.

I know 5.3 was just publicly released this last Monday.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: It's now released with support for 5.3

comments: author: Peter Rohner
body: Does it work though? I can't get it to edit/Save after upgrading to 5.3 today. :(


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We've had no reported issues after about 300 upgrades and our test systems don't show any problems. Could you open a new thread please with full details of your system and exact steps to reproduce the issue please?


author: Hans-Hermann Hunfeld
body: Works here without any known problems!

By the way, this plugin is one of our most favorites at all!!


author: Peter Rohner
body: It could just be something I've done during the upgrade to 5.3. I'll investigate further as it appears no one else is seeing this.

I ageree with Hans-Hermann Hunfield - it is a favourite plugin here too.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: I more meant it's not a widespread problem with the plugin, but it's entirely possible that you have some combination of environment that is valid yet causing problems. If the problem persists, either start a new thread on this forum, or raise a support ticket at [https://jgraph.freshdesk.com](https://jgraph.freshdesk.com.). We do support the plugin with a full SLA for all users, it's not a "tough luck, it's free" product...


author: Peter Rohner
body: Request has been logged. Thanks. :)


author: Hans-Hermann Hunfeld
body: Hi!  
Perhaps you can give us a rough idea when the update for Confluence 5.3 will be available as we re really waiting for it. In case it takes some additional days we ll roll back to 5.2.5, but this depends on your answer... ;-)

Many thanks!

comments: author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: It'll be out this week.


author: Derek Finley
body: Ok. Thanks for such a quick reply. Looking forward to the release for 5.3!


author: Boris
body: Confluence 5.3 broke some things and we are preparing a release with a workaround. It should be released soon.


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

confluence-administration
Generating Jira tickets from Requirements Blueprint
Asked by David McIntyre:

At #summit13 in the Keynote we saw a Confluence Requirements Blueprint that automatically generated Jira tickets based on the requirements listed in the table. I can't figure out how to make that happen using my OnDemand Confluence; is that an upcoming feature or am I missing omsething?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: So to just confirm:

* We've got this scheduled for Confluence 5.4 (due just before Christmas)
* This will work for any type of content, the demo we gave was just on the requirements Blueprint.
* I (personally) would love to get any feedback on the feature that you might have as we are working on it right now.


author: Pedro Cora
body: David,

That's an upcoming feature that should be available until X-Mas as far as I understood from the Keynote.

comments: author: David McIntyre
body: Thanks Pedro. Sometimes it was hard to tell what features were already available and which were upcoming.


Tags: blueprint

cloud

confluence-cloud

requirement
Banner in a space - centering text
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Evening all,

I've just discovered how to create a banner for a space, which is brilliant I have to say, because now I can make announcements about Confluence and no one can say they haven't seen them! :)

I've read the Atlassian docs on this and the wiki markup info, but I can't see how to centre the text on the page. At the moment it's all left justified.

So is this possible and if so, how? An example would be great. I've tried everything I can think of but have run out of options.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Davin,

Yes, I've checked all that and we do. I tried to use it in my early experiments but it didn't work.

Cheers.


author: Davin Studer
body: If you have the center macro then you must already have the Content Formatting Macros cause there isn't one that comes with Confluence by default ... that I know of. :)


author: Mick Davidson
body: I am so dumb at times, here's the answer. Use the following:

{center}some text here{center}

I'm dumb because I already had the following in the code:

{color:red}\*You have been warned!\*{color}

So the curly brackets should have been a bit of a clue earlier! :)

Thanks, have a good weekend.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Davin,

Thanks for the tips, I've had a look but I don't think they are suitable. Partly at least because one of them seems to work site-wide and I'm want to do this for each space seperately.

Cheers.


author: Davin Studer
body: An easy option would be to get the free version of the [Content Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros) and use the center macro. For the banner another thought, if you haven't already found it, is the [Public Announcement Service](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.pas).


author: Mick Davidson
body: PS, does anyone know how to change the banner's default colour? At the moment it's yellow, which isn't bad, but it's a bit insipid. I'd like to make it a little bolder.

Thanks in advance. :)


Tags: announcement-banner
Hosted Confluence, screwed up space permissions
Asked by Dave Sanders:

So, without realizing it, I managed to remove ALL permissions from a space on the hosted Confluence. Now, I can view the space, but cannot administer anything on it.

I have several spaces in my install and some are visible by clients. To ensure that I wasn't accidentally exposing some clients to others' spaces, I was removing group based permissions and replacing them with individual permissions.

One space was created via JIRA so I wasn't listed as an individual user on the space. (Only System Administrator shows in the individuals) I removed the group permissions and before I could add myself in as an admin, I was locked out. (This happened without me hitting save, it saved behind the scenes, or saved when I went to add myself individually, saving the group changes BEFORE it added me.)

The space was new, so I'm not worried about deleting it and starting over - but there seems to be no way to do this. Is there a way for Atlassian support to do this? Or at least reset the default permissions? Or any other way to set these permissions? (from JIRA perhaps?)

Thanks. And now I know NOT to do that again.


Answers:
author: Dave Sanders
body: This was fixed by an email to Atlassian support. They fixed my permission and it let me get back in to deal with the issue.

So, just be careful when removing permissions on things. :)


author: HosseinA
body: hi, I think you can login with a user that belongs to confluence-administrator group and set the permissions back again. I would like to mention that confluence-administrator group users are the super users in confluence. hope this helps.

comments: author: Dave Sanders
body: I don't think so because my account _should_ be a super user account as I set up the service and it lists me as a system administrator everywhere. But I'm told that I have no permissions on that space now. Can't edit it, can't change settings, etc.

Unless there's a permission I need to go turn on somewhere...


Tags: confluence-administration

permission
can i change the color of side bar in confluence 5.1.3?
Asked by Lakshmi:

Hi ,

i would like to match the side bar color (right now in light grey color) to match with the content section which is white background.

is it possible to udpate this at site level? or else at least space level?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Bharadwaj Jannu
body: see the document

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+a+Space's+Colour+Scheme

comments: author: Carolyn McDonough
body: I don't see a choice for Side Bar . .


Tags: colour

side-bar
Is there a way to search most popular word or sentence in all Confluence pages?
Asked by youjeong jang:

Hello,

One of my customer site wants to search a plug-in like or some way to search most popular used word or sentence in All pages of Confluence. For example, there might be written some terminology that the users using in the organization, and they want to search the most upopular words on all of the Confluence pages and then with that results, they want to make some sort of Terminology Dictionary.

I've founded there are feature like "Labels" or "Conflunce Usage Tracking Plug-in" but I guess there might be other ways.

Any answers would be appreciated.

Thank you.

youjeong.


Answers:
author: Vera Henrichs
body: There's a JIRA-issue created to add this to Confluence: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34661)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34661>  
Please vote for this issue and comment why it would be awesome to have this feature :-)
Security Token Error Message
Asked by Cheryl Schmelzer:

What does it mean when this message appears after attempting to save an updated page?

"Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to resubmit the form or reload the page."

When we do save the page again, not all changes are applied.

This occurs intermittently. Can somebody tell me what might cause this error?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi there,

<br />

First try to flush the browser and check if this issue will occur in different browser. It is possible that this issue is related to this bug <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23148>

<br />

According to the bug report, this issue might be caused by Apache/Tomcat configuration. Below is the comment taken directly from the bug report:
> We discovered it to be a bug in the Apache/Tomcat configuration.  
> This issue crops up when using Apache 2.2 (and possibly 2.0 with mod_jk), and is due to the Apache config variable ProxyIOBufferSize (for 2.2, not sure what it's called in mod_jk) having an undefined size.  
> By adding "ProxyIOBufferSize 8192" to the vhost connected to the Confluence instance this problem goes away.  
> This has to do with how transfers between the Apache and Tomcat instance gets chunked up and buffer use, and fixes similar problems in other projects I work on, too, such as OpenNMS with an Apache front.  
> [Untill Apache 2.2.14-ish "ProxyIOBufferSize 16384" would also work for more efficient transfers, but recent doc changes at](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23148.%3C/span%3E%3C/span)[apache.org](http://apache.org) vaguely states it has to be set to 8192 or less. The default is stated as being 8192, but does not work, explicityly defining it fixes the problem.  
You may want to update your apache configuration to include the ProxyIOBufferSize setting to see if this fixes your problem. If you still have problems please contact our support team at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)  
If the issue persist, please contact our support team at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) as suggested.  

Hope this helps!  

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa


author: Robert Mota
body: Hi,

We get this message

"Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page."

trying to save several Confluence updated pages (always, and on always the same pages, and not on all pages), even without to pass by any reverse proxy, directly to the tomcat serveur.

(fyi, this link is not reachable [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23148.%3C/span%3E%3C/span)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23148>)

Best regards

Robert MOTA