youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Setup individual person's Team Calendars to automatically reflect multi-person events
Asked by Vijay Menon:

Hi

I'll explain this with a scenario.

I have a project A, for which there are multiple events. For each event, I need to add multiple people.

At the same time, I want to setup a calendar for each team member.

How can I set it up so that if I add multiple people to an event in the Project calendar, it reflects in the individual team member's calendar?

Thanks

V


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi ViM,

I don't think it is currently possible to do what you want. If I understand correctly you would like each user to have a personal calendar that automatically contains any events that the user has been added to?

Team Calendars can't do that at the moment, however users will recive an email if they are added to an event that will invite them to start watching the calendar.

Please feel free to raise a "New Feature" ticket at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL> for this functionality.

Cheers,  
Matt

comments: author: Vijay Menon
body: Hi Matt

Thanks for that. Yes, that's exactly what I was asking. In a way, it's surprising that there's no personal calendar for the logged in user by default.

Vijay


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is thre a way to disable all confluence notifications except "Forgot my Password?"
Asked by Bryan Karsh:

Hi,

I want my confluence users to be able to use the "forgot my password" functionality, but I don't want them to get any other email notifcations from networking, watches, etc.

Is there a way to do that? I am currently on Confluence 3.3.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Go through all the system plugins and disable the relevent mail notification ones :)


Tags: notification

velocity
Read-only global permission in Confluence - possible?
Asked by Kerrin Hardy:

The only global permission appears to be 'Can use' and this includes create/edit permissions. Is there a way we can set up a read-only global permission that is inherited for each new space that is created?

It seems counter-intuitive that an ***enterprise*** wiki requires manual configuration of space permissions every time a space is created ...


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: Create/edit page permission isn't coming from 'Can use' [Global Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview#GlobalPermissionsOverview-Overviewoftheglobalpermissions), but "Pages: Add" [Space Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview). Starting Confluence 4.2.6 and above, you could set up a [default Space Permission scheme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions#AssigningSpacePermissions-Settingdefaultspacepermissions) so that you'll have that permission set automatically when you create a new Space. So you could then, in the Default Space Permissions setting, add a particular group with just 'View' Space Permissions.

Hope that helps!

comments: author: Kerrin Hardy
body: Thanks @husein
> in the Default Space Permissions setting, add a particular group with just 'View' Space Permissions

Where is this setting?


author: Kerrin Hardy
body: Thanks for your help @husein - we've now upgraded and have access to the correct settings


author: Derek Matuszewski
body: .


Tags: permission
AD users cannot log into wiki
Asked by Chris Flynn:

Initially AD users can log into Confluence, but then after 2 to 5 days they can no longer log in. They see an error message saying that their login password is incorrect. The Confluence service is restarted and the issue goes away for another 2 to 5 days.


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: What version of Confluence are you running? Concerning the connection to AD, are the users synchronizing okay in Confluence? It might be useful to share some of the options you've set In the connection properties. E.g. Are you looking for groups in AD also?
Center images in pdf export
Asked by K Kelly:

I have been using the {center} macro and inserting an image within it so that my images will be centered when exported as PDF. However, it doesn't work consistently. Of approximately 10 applications of this on my page (which is for end-user doc), 3 of them left justify and don't center.

Anyone know why this might be or how I can resolve?


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Have you tried doing this with the aid of CSS, in the Pdf stylesheet option (in space admin)?That should work correctly.

comments: author: K Kelly
body: I'm not sure how I would do that in the css since images need to be in a container that is centered. If you have ideas, I'm more than happy to give them a try.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Document Retention - How to do that in Confluence
Asked by Reatha Ek:

Hello!

If we want to avoid running out of bounds with disk space we need to put document and file retention policies.

* Is there a macro to be able to tag files which I just haven't found yet?
* Is it possible to extend the XML code of a page so that it contains the 'Best Before' Date, which can be used to remove expired content automatically?


Answers:
author: Darin - Opus Guard
body: [@Reatha Ek](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/684292) and [@Ken Tobin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3540959) Following up here in the age of Cloud, while there's not a macro built into Confluence to set retention policies and globally Delete or Purge content by default, many apps have come to the Atlassian Marketplace to help make this easy and save you on storage, clutter, and meet ISO/SOC2 compliance around data retention automation. Also worth noting that while Atlassian has introduced the archive feature, archived content still counts against total storage. Check out [Content Retention Manager for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1233769/content-retention-manager-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) and see if this helps.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Bernd,

For expiring content automatically you may find the [Confluence Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123) useful. For more of a manual approach I wrote a user macro that will list all the pages in a Space that haven't been updated for a certain period of time, [details on my blog](http://blog.networkedcollaboration.com/2012/02/06/tracking-old-pages-in-confluence/).

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "tag files I just haven't found yet". Is that pages you haven't visited?

Andrew.


author: Midori
body: Bernd, there is **a blog post written on this exact topic** : <http://www.kikamaca.com/2011/08/managing-content-in-confluence-archiving-and-retention-policies/>

This is thorough, well-written and you may also find this extremely valuable.

comments: author: Ken Tobin
body: This link no longer works. Please repost the link. Thanks!
Center images in a PDF Title
Asked by K Kelly:

I have two images to add to the PDF title page and have incorporated them on the PDF Layout

However, can anyone suggest what I need to put in the PDF Stylesheet that will center these images horizontally?

I would also like space between the two images but have not been able to figure out how to incorporate that into eitehr the PDF Layout or PDF Stylesheet.

Any suggestions are most greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

have a look at this site: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

There is an example for centering an image on a title page ("Adding an image to the title page")

Best regards

Thomas

comments: author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Maybe some "\&nbsp;" ?


author: K Kelly
body: ah...\<br\> to veritically create space...I forgot about that.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Missing Build Number on DAC Confluence Build Information
Asked by dhardiker_adaptavist:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Confluence+Build+Information> is missing v2.5.2, which is build number 807. Yes - we're coming across Confluence systems this old in the wild!

I would have updated it myself had I the access - or commented directly, but comments are disabled.


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: I've added the build number in for 2.5.2 on the page.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I would like to see comments enabled on the developer pages. Frankly, it makes no sense to me that they are not.
What is the drawback to increasing the attachment size limit?
Asked by Josh Eastburn:

Our users like Confluence! They want to put everything in there, including PDFs and images. Sometimes these attachments are bigger than the default 10MB limit. Besides making the DB larger, what is the drawback to increasing the attachment size limit?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Adding attachments does not have to make the DB much bigger. *References* to attachments are stored in the database (in the ATTACHMENTS table), but the data for the attachments themselves can be stored in either the database or in the file system. I would go with filesystem for most use cases.

Go to the main Administration panel and click "Attachment Storage". Click the Edit button, and then select "Locally in Confluence home directory".

So, in that scenario, the only downside I can think of is just network usage since storage space is neglible.

hth,

matt

comments: author: Josh Eastburn
body: Sorry, I should have made it clearer that I *am* currently storing attachments in the DB. Sounds like that's not a good idea, though, if we are going to be putting big files in there.


author: CharlesH
body: In addition to the points made by Matthew, I would add that larger attachments will create additional load on the Confluence server in terms of indexing. Also, I've had occasional cases where users expect to upload a 30MB image heavy Powerpoint file and have the preview macro deliver sub-second rendering times...If you have good network performance, then your main consideration should be the response times you currently get from your Confluence server. You can check the round trip time you get now with the aid of this macro (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Response+Time>). Once you have a benchmark, then you can increase the limit, perhaps in steps, and check response times again as users make use of the new limits.


Tags: attachment
User link is wrong in Confluence blog post
Asked by Chris Tybur:

I have a space in my Confluence 4.2 wiki that is used as a blog. Different people post to it just fine, however, I have a slight issue with one user.

When he posts something new, the link that appears at the top of the post to his profile is wrong. The link is normally something like [https://mywiki.com/display/\~jdoe](https://mywiki.com/display/%7Ejdoe), but for him it's [https://mywiki.com/display/\~John+Doe](https://mywiki.com/display/%7EJohn+Doe), which doesn't exist.

We have an LDAP directory defined in our wiki, and everyone uses their Active Directory account to log in. This problem cropped up some time in the last couple of months, but I can't recall what might have changed in our Confluence install at that time. Any idea why that link is wrong? Is there a record somewhere in the database associated with his account that got messed up somehow?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Perhaps he has an account in the internal directory and as such he's different.

comments: author: Chris Tybur
body: I've checked and I can't find an internal account for him.


Tags: blog
Include Excerpt from Child Page in Confluence?
Asked by Miko Makela:

I'm trying to include excerpt from a child page in the Parent page table, how can I acheive that?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Miko

You can also use the Children Display macro, and set the "Include Excerpts" parameter. (This doesn't work in a table, but it may suit your purposes.)

Use the Excerpt macro to define an excerpt on each child page. The Children Display macro will then display the title of each child page, and the excerpt from each.

Here's the documentation:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Children+Display+Macro>

Or this, if you're using Confluence 3.5:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Children+Display+Macro>

Here's an example of a page that uses this technique:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Crowd+User%27s+Glossary>

Here's another, with a different format set for the Children Display macro:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91554183>

I hope this is helpful.

Cheers, Sarah


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Miko,

You should be able to do that with the [{excerpt}](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Macro) and [{excerpt-include}](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro) macros. On the child page use the [{excerpt}](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Macro) macro to wrap the text that you want to include on the parent page, e.g.

```
{excerpt}This is some text on the child page that I want to include somewhere else.{excerpt}
```

and on the parent page use the [{excerpt-include}](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro) macro to include the child page that you have used the {excerpt} macro on.

Hope that makes sense?

Andrew.
Whats the name of this feature?
Asked by David Browne:

Hello,

i have seen a feature in this video [http://www.youtube.com/embed/DZFeGT27dAU?autoplay=1\&rel=0\&wmode=transparent](http://www.youtube.com/embed/DZFeGT27dAU?autoplay=1&rel=0&wmode=transparent) at 1:06.

How can i create such a page?

Thx


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Are you talking about the chart? From the looks of it, it seems made with the Gliffy plugin.

comments: author: David Browne
body: Yes, i mean the chart with the timeline and the sections in the left space. Thx for the Tipp with Gliffy. I will check it now. Other suggestions :-)


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: I double checked, it's definitely Gliffy.


Tags: project
"Update Status" does not appear in the menu when you are non-admin user
Asked by Daisuke Niwa:

Hello there,

We are using Confluence 4.2.1. When you are not an admin user, the "update status" doesn't appear in the menu after clicking your user name on a Confluence page.

We have checked the plugin for this feature is enabled.

Is there anyone who got similar experience?

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: There is a specific permission to control whether users can use status updates or not. I think that by default, it is set that nobody can use it. It will work for admins only, as obviously an administrator has full permissions to do anything.

To grant other users permission to use the feature, go to /admin/permissions/globalpermissions.action

You can grant permission to all users, users in specific groups, or individual users as you like.

For more information see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview>

comments: author: Daisuke Niwa
body: Thank you for your quick comment, that helps a lot!
Using forefront over confluence prevents some actions from completing
Asked by Brett Ryan:

We are making confluence available to remote users through a Microsoft product called Fore Front, it works fine for viewing content however editing is not working correctly.

The editor starts fine however attempting to preview or bring up the macro browser does not work and results in an error 500 (code 64: Host not available).

Are there any other ports etc that we need to enable within forefront to client connections?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hey Brett,

You only need the HTTP port for Confluence (eg. 80 or 8080).

Make sure your Confluence Base URL is set correctly. Because users are going to access Confluence via ForeFront, you need to edit the base URL so that it points to ForeFront.

Details here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>

Some of the dynamic parts of Confluence use the Base URL to call-back in to Confluence after the page has loaded (for example, in the editor). If the base URL is different to the URL by which the page was originally loaded, these background requests will not be able to authenticate against the Confluence server and will fail.

comments: author: Brett Ryan
body: It turned out this was a misconfigured forefront which I did not have control of. I'm sketchy on the detaisl but it had to do with how forefront was redirecting from the client.

Our confluence machine is fronted by Apache/AJP, this was originally running on HTTP internally. However forefront needs to run on HTTPS. To try resolve the problem I set the apache configuration to redirect all requests from HTTP to HTTPS which then caused external requests to end up in an infinite redirection loop, aha, this I could see where the problem was.

It turns out that forefront was misconfigured, I'm not sure of how because that area of our system I do not have access to. The basics of the problem were as follows:

1. Forefront accepted a request on HTTP and redirected to HTTPS (confluence/apache has not seen the request yet).
2. Forefront authenticates the user and proxies the request off to apache
3. Apache accepts the request on port 80 (http) and sends a redirect for https.
4. This redirect then gets sent to the browser which obligingly redirects to https (which it was already at)
5. Forefront takes the request on port 80, then forwards the request to apache again, on port 80 and we end up at step 3 again.

I had a rather frustrated infrastructure administrator trying to solve the forefront problem, which was eventually solved and all is now peachy :)

I provide this to anyone else experiencing proxy type misconfigurations to help identify what the problem is.


author: Joe Clark
body: Thanks for taking the time to provide your answer back to the community! :-)
No underline is shown for headings
Asked by Daisuke Niwa:

Hi there,

I would like to share following problem which are occurring to only some of our customer's users.

On Confluence 4.2.4, when you select "heading 1" from "paragragh" dropdown list in rich text editor, usually underline appears automatically.

![](../../upfiles/underlined_heading.png)However, in some of their user's case, underline does not appear. Anybody has similar experience? Please let me know.

![](../../upfiles/no_underline_for_heading_2.png)

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: It is most likely that the examples are from pages in spaces with different themes.

A theme can be applied to a space, which will then apply certain changes to the look and feel of all pages within the space. If the Documentation theme is active, then the h1 and h2 heading styles will have the underline, as shown. If the space is using the Default theme, then they will not. Your instance may have other 3rd-party or self-created themes available too.

See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Space>

comments: author: Daisuke Niwa
body: Thanks Mark,

It seems you are right, this problem only occurs in certain space.

I am asking the owner of that space to check which theme he's using.

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Weird. To diagnose this issue, I would open the edit page in Chrome and use the style explorer to figure out what's different between the two cases. That's where I would start, anyway.


author: Sebastian Krzewinski
body: I used:

```
.wiki-content h1,.wiki-content h2,.panel h2,.panelMacro h2{padding-bottom:2px;border-bottom:none;}
```

and underlines disappeared.


author: Kerrin Hardy
body: Yes, I've noticed the difference between Firefox and Internet Explorer


author: Daisuke Niwa
body: Matthew and Andrew,

Thank you for your respective response.

Actually, this problem is happening on Internet Explorer and Chrome. Switching language to English does not resolve this problem.

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa


author: Andrew Frayling
body: What immediately stands out to me is the example without the underline is in a different language (based on menu items in the editor) to the one where there is an underline so there could be language specific stylesheets being applied?

I'd advise the same as Matthew and use Chrome or Firefox inspection tools to see what stylesheets and styles are being applied in each case and if switching languages consistently causes the headings to not be underlined.

Andrew.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Nice catch. I didn't see the non-Latin text on the drop downs. I bet that's it. There are several ways to make CSS language-specific, described here: <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-lang.en.php>


author: Daisuke Niwa
body: Matthew and Andrew,

Thank you for your respective response.

Actually, this problem is happening on Internet Explorer and Chrome. Switching language to English does not resolve this problem.

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa
Insert page breaks in a page export
Asked by K Kelly:

As an OnDemand user, how do I insert a page break when that specific page is exported to PDF so that I can keep my graphics and content or tables and content together?

I've modified the space pdf to page break after certain headers; but, my issue is on individual pages where I need to control the page break to keep the content together.

Advice is very much appreciated!


Answers:
author: K Kelly
body: I found this trick for us OnDemand users that cannot use the html macro or create user macros do this it (it would be very beneficial if Atlassian provided at least these common macros that they even indicate as solutions in their own documentation).

In the PDF Stylesheet, I added:

h6,h7

{

page-break-before: always;

}

I used h6 and h7 since I don't use these headings in our doc for anything.

Where I want a page break, I insert an h6 heading and then make it white or the color of the background.

In the TOCs on the page, I make sure they don't display past a level 5

This will then create page breaks where I need. The downside is that there is always an extra row.

So, it would be very helpful if Atlassian provided a page break macro out of the box since this seems to be a comment request in the many forums/blogs that I read on the topic.

<br />


author: kimberly anderson
body: How do you delete a page break in the PDF export after the JIRA issues macro it inserts an extra blank page as the issues go to the end of the page.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
PDF Export doesn't retain image justfications
Asked by K Kelly:

I have center-justified many of my images within our technical documentation; however, when I export the page, all images are left justified. How do I keep the image justification retained on export?


Answers:
author: K Kelly
body: First, I had to actually insert the center justification macro and put the image inside of it.

Then, if there was much other formatting of text before the image, I would have to put the actual text into an align macro, with a left justification.

It doesn't seem that the RTE's actually justification toolbar options are appropriately applying the justification tags correctly since I'm having to manually insert these macros.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud