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Is it possible to have a page on confluence refer to another page within same space?
Asked by srinivasp:

Hi, I need to link/direct to another page within the same space, without the user seeing a link on the page.Is it possible?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hmm, why do you want to add a link that noone can see ?

But if you really want do add a link and then hide it from everyone, you can use the [visibility plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility) from Customware for example.

Cheers and have a great time hiding links ;-)

comments: author: srinivasp
body: Thomas, I am looking for some kind of redirection functionality. When a user click on the child page, it should redirect to a different page which is existing on the same space. Is it currently possible?


author: srinivasp
body: I am getting 404 exception when i clicked the link

<https://answers.atlassian.com./15713/redirection-in-confluence-4>


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: ah, ok. Then I have misunderstood your question.

A similar question was asked and answered [here](/questions/15713/redirection-in-confluence-4)

I think this should work for you also.

Cheers

Thomas


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: try this link: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/15713/redirection-in-confluence-4>


author: srinivasp
body: Thanks.. it is working!!
An internal server error occurred when requesting resource when I try add gadget
Asked by Sebastian Krzewinski:

Hi.

In Jira (v5.2.4) I have installed Jira Calendar Plugin (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.ext.calendar>).

I add Jira Calendar Plugin gadget in Confluence (v4.3.3) and when I try use it on page a got error: **An internal server error occurred when requesting resource.**

Unfortunately Confluence logs do not contain more information that might be helpful.  

<br />


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: ```
Hi Sebastian,I'm wondering if instead of using the JIRA Calendar gadget you considered Adding a JIRA Calendar directly by using the Team Calendars plugin? This should help you visualizing information from your JIRA instance within Confluence.Cheers,

LJ.
```
Edit/Modify links on the Home page
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

![](../../upfiles/Home_page.JPG)There are some links on the Home page of our application which have to modify. We are unable to find the ways to edit the page. Please guide me .


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure I understand the question. If it's your system, you can edit it.

If you don't have edit rights, ask the administrators of the space why not.

We can't really help you here - it's your system.

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: I have the admin rights. The screen shot above must be the home page, which doesn't have any edit option.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I am not understanding the problem here then. "The screen shot must be the home page" - that could be an instruction, or your assumptions. I can only see \*part\* of the screen and it doesn't have any of the usual confluence stuff around it, which makes me think it's not in Confluence.

Could you clarify if that page is definitely in Confluence or not. If it is, then can you find the confluence header bar and show/tell us what is there. If it is not in confluence, then can you tell us what you want to do with it exactly, and how far you've got.


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Ilink address for this page is : <https://confluence.unhcr.org/confluence/display/SAMM/SAMM>


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: It does not make any sense to post a link to a password secured site... And please do not post username and password here ;-)


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Thomas: I just wanted to make sure that the page belongs to Confluence.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: ok, it looks like it is a confluence page. Can you edit any other page in this space ? Look at the administration section of the space. Are there some page restriction on the page SAMM ?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: ... what Thomas-S said.

The url makes me think it's almost certainly a confluence installation and the page is part of a space, but we really need to see the whole page, with all the Confluence header bar to see what options you do have.

One thought though - could you go to the space the page lives in and look for "restricted pages" - that could be blocking your edit. As an admin, you can't edit restricted pages, but you can see them, and remove that or widen the restriction to include yourself.
Import a text file with Atlassian CLI
Asked by Stefan Eike:

Hi,

I'd like to import some *readme.md* files from some Git repositories. The content of the *readme.md* files should be added to (different) Confluence pages. I do not want to attach the files to the Confluence pages, I want to important the content to the page directly to use the search function and to have the content displayed on the page.

* Would that be possible to do that?
* Do I need the Atlassian CLI plugin ([https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli "Atlassian CLI plugin")) to do that?
* Do I need other additional plugins?

Thank you very much for answering!

Best regards

Stefan


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use [storePage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-storePage) from the ACLI/Confluence CLI with the file parameter pointing to your readme file. You can add some before and after content as well if you need.

comments: author: Stefan Eike
body: Thank you very much!


author: Stefan Eike
body: Do I need both plugins?

* [Atlassian Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassian.cli "Atlassian Command Line Interface")
* [CLI Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli "CLI Plugin for Confluence")

Or does *Atlassian Command Line Interface* include the second one?
> This is a combined distribution including all product specific CLI tools.

Do I need the [Run Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.run "Run Plugin for Confluence") as well to execute queries from a Confluence page?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Atlassian Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ACLI) (which includes the Confluence CLI) are client programs (runs on PC) - no plugins on your server are required to run from a client. The CLI plugin for Confluence provide additional capabilities to run ACLI actions from within Confluence. [Atlassian CLI license](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ACLI/Atlassian+CLI+license) requires purchase (but not install) of a plugin.

From your original request, it sounded like you just need a client to populate your Confluence with the pages. If you have additional requirements the plugin may be useful. Same goes for the Run plugin - it is useful if you need a user dialog for someone to interact with in order to create a page, etc...


author: Stefan Eike
body: Thank you very much for the detailled explanation! Now I'm asking for money.


Tags: cli
Open a particular attachment in a new window
Asked by Abhishek Thalla:

I have several images in one page, but i want only one image to open the attachment linked to it in a new window.

Rest of the images also have attachmnets linked to it but they should be opened in the same page itself. Is it possible.Please help me out if possible


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: Actually such behaviour is not possible to be configured on Conflunce.

At the present moment when you click on an image (thumbnail) it will open in the same window.

I've raised a [ticke](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27950)t requesting to have the ability to configure the image to open in the same window or into a new one.

I'd strongly suggest you to vote and comment on it to raise its awareness and also add yourself as a watcher for following further updates.

Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Backup drive location
Asked by Alexander Theiss:

I have the impression that that backup zip that is generated by confluence after backup has to be stroed on the same drive as confluence. Is there a way to build a path to a different drive even on a virtual server?


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi Alexander,

You can find information in the following documentation to change backup location: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Backups>

Please let me know if this was what you were looking for.

Cheers,

Peter


author: Alexander Theiss
body: ok

solved it!

Thanks again
login issue for the user after changing the password
Asked by Lakshmi:

Hi,

we are using confluence 4.2.2 and integrated with our AD. so that accounts will be created automatically. now the issue one user is not able to login after she changed her windows/network password (which is common login crdentials for all applications).

confluenc eapplication is keep on new CAPTCHA. but not able to in. attaching the screenshot.please find them and help ASAP. Though i am selecting the issue priority as moderate, please look into this issue. because user has to access the documents on urgent need.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Vishnukumar Vasudevan
body: Confluence Admin can reset the failed login count for her. Should be fine then


Tags: issue

login
Attach dwg files on a page
Asked by Ioannis Kanellos:

I have uploaded an attachment which is a file type .\*dwg. When I try to modify the properties a system error is created. Same if I try to download the file. I guess that this is happening because the page is not set up to accept files type dwg. How can I mofify attachments settings to include dwg type files?


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: At the present moment Confluence only supports gif, jpeg, png and bmp (depending on browser support) image file formats.

I have raised a ticket requesting this file format to be supported on Confluence: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27861>

I'd strongly suggest you to vote and comment on it to raise its awareness and also add yourself as a watcher for following further updates.

For further reference in how Atlassian implements its feature requests please refer to: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy>

Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Adding more styles to the Confluence editor toolbar
Asked by jswinarton:

Is there a way that I can add more text styles to the drop-down list of styles in the editor toolbar?

![](http://i.imgur.com/0OQXvM4.png)

For example, I'd like to add a style called "First Revsion" that changes the text colour to green. In the future, the format may change, and I'd like to avoid having to go through every page and changing the colour manually later.


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: I would recommend you to use User Macros instead. This is easier to do rather than having to go with adding new styles in the editor (as far as I know, this is not possible).

Please refer to the following documentation/page for more info about User Macros:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros>

some examples: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Shared+User+Macros>

You can add user macros into a page and the text written inside this macro will be then displayed according to the template of user macro that you have written. If, by any chance, you'd like to change the color, you can then change the user macro template and this will be affected with all pages that use this user macro.
Reverse the order of stories in backlog
Asked by Farzad Panahi:

When I create a story/issue in my agile backlog it goes to the end of the stack which is at the bottom of the page. The problem is that most of the time I need to add the newly created issues to the sprint and dragging the issues all the way from bottom of the page to the top of the page where sprints are, is very tideous.

I was wondering if I could just reverse the order of issues in backlog, such that the latest created issues always sit on the top of the backlog? This way I can easily drag and drop the newly created issues to the active sprint.


Answers:
author: Danielle Zhu
body: I found the Send to Top (s+t) keyboard shortcut quite handy. Here is a complete list of keyboard shortcuts: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Using+Keyboard+Shortcuts> This is not exactly what you asked for but better than drag-n-drop.

comments: author: Danielle Zhu
body: You may also want to vote for this feature: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-5368>


Tags: backlog

jira-software
Can't access space admin because space was created by LDAP user account that no longer exists
Asked by Kenty:

We have a couple of spaces on our Confluence installation whereby the Space Admin isn't accessible by anybody because they were set up with a single admin user, and that user account is no longer active (LDAP managed).  

Even with full confluence admin privileges I can't find a way to make myself admin for those spaces. Help!


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Just to expand a bit on this point. This space admin sounds like it is locked to a single user. There is no way to alter the spacepermission table from the UI. This is the table that locks control of a space. It is necessary then to recreate the user and unlock the space as that user.

Bruna points to the strategy of creating a clone of that user in the Confluence internal directory and circuventing the space permissions in this manner. You are then free to remove the restrictions from the space.

An alternate strategy would be to manually edit the space permissions table from your favorite database editing tool. You could find all mention of the user that is no loner active and replace it with a user that still exists. This is a bit of a hacky way around things and if you choose this method I would definiately take a backup of your database before giving it a try.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Kenty!

In that case, please make sure that you still have the Confluence Admin \> User Directory \> Confluence Internal activated.

If the user no longer exists, you can recreate it and then you'll have access to the page/space and then remove its restrictions in which page.

Hope it helps!
multiple administrators in confluence?
Asked by yasmin spiro:

Is it possible to create multiple administrators in Confluence? I need to give access to certain aspects of the work we do - that seems to be limited to administrators.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Duplicate - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/126989/can-there-be-multiple-administrators](/questions/126989/can-there-be-multiple-administrators)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can there be multiple administrators?
Asked by yasmin spiro:

Trying to provide multiple users the ability to change things that seem to be limited to adminstrators.


Answers:
author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Yes, you can create as many administrators as you want. The user would need to be a member of confluence-administrators group,

See this link for details.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview>

Rahul


author: yasmin spiro
body: changing names of spaces - various things. We would like to create more that one admin - so that if one person is out/unavailable we have the ability to change many things.

Is this possible?

Thanks.  


author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Can you provide more information. What changes are ou referring to here.

If it is project specific changes then you can delegate some of the project admin work such as managing users in project roles, creating versions in project etc to the project admins.

Rahul


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Allow Customers access to Confluence documents
Asked by Nickie Woodcock:

We have created a documentations dashboard and want to allow our customers access. How ill this affect out licences? Can I create them as users with access to only view and comment on the dashboard?


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: Any active user account (i.e. a user that can log in) will count as a full Confluence user on your licence.

You can restrict the visbility of your content such that only specific users or groups of users can see certain content. See [Giving People Access to Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Giving+People+Access+to+Content) for more information.


author: Nickie Woodcock
body: Thank you Michael, we are currently looking at the best way to publish our support materials to our customers without the need to purchase licenses. Just an area to view the documentation.

Please close off this tickets.

Kind regards

Nickie


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Running STASH as service
Asked by Jared Goodpasture:

I'm trying to install STASH as a service and i get the message that it could not be started, the service specific error is 0.

The help documentation that I've been able to find references this being a problem with it finding msvcr71.dll from the jdk 1.6 installation.

I'm using jdk 1.7 and it appears that msvcr71.dll is replaced by msvcr100.dll. I've used it in the same way the troubleshooting techniques suggest using msvcr71.dll with adding the path to PATH and copying it to system32, but neither seem to work. Is there something else I need to do?


Answers:
author: Elvir Hadzic
body: Had the same problem. For me, this was the solution:

> If you are running a 64-bit version of Windows and a 64-bit JVM, then the tomcat7.exe and tcnative-1.dll binaries in the /bin directory need to be replaced with their .x64 counterparts.
>
The files are allready in the bin folder and have the ending \*.x64 which you obviously have to replace with exe/dll  


author: Sanne Korzec
body: Run start-stash.bat from the command line. (in the stash bin folder)

and check your console for warnings or errors. Might be something simple as an unitialized

JAVA_HOME environment variable...


author: LucasA
body: Hi,

Please check this document: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Running+Stash+as+a+Windows+service>

If you still have this problem, please raise a support ticket at [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com.).

Cheers,

Lucas Lima


Tags: bitbucket-server

service

tomcat

windows
New Machine = New License Key? What about Plugin Licenses?
Asked by Nabil Sayegh:

We are going to separate our atlassian instances to dedicated machines, instead of one common machine.

What license issues will occur?

Do we have to generate a new Confluence license?

Do we need new Licences for our plugins?


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179438999>

<http://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#managingmyaccount-9>


author: Russell H
body: As far as I'm aware, you only need a license per instance of the application. It doesn't matter if you move it to a new machine, as long as you only have 1 production instance of the application at any 1 time.

comments: author: Nabil Sayegh
body: Thank you. But can anybody tell me for sure, what will happen to my Confluence and Plugin licenses?


Tags: confluence-app

licence
Gliffy macro not working
Asked by Frank Lester:

I'm trialing Confluence and am not able to figure out how to use the Gliffy plugin (which the admin page says is installed). When I click the Gliffy Diagram macro I get a pop-up window that has the following in it:

\<img src="/wiki/download/resources/com.gliffy.integration.confluence:gliffy-macro-key/icons/gliffy-logo-24px.png" clas

but no evident functionality as advertised.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: Hi Frank,

I believe that you may be running through this bug (or something similar to it): <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27804>

But just in case I recommend you to raise a ticket under [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) so the Support Team can further investigate it.

Cheers!

comments: author: Frank Lester
body: Thank you ..... I will create a ticket where you recommend.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to flush Confluence cache from the command line, without restarting Confluence?
Asked by Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix):

I am looking for a solution to flush Confluence cache without restarting the service.

It has to be a scriptable solution, one that I can include inside a script.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: If you mean Confluence plugin cache. The cache are used to keep frequently used information handy. If you clear it without restarting Confluence, that will make some plugins fail.

If you mean Conflnuence cache, you can flush it from the user interface in "Confluence Admin" \> "Cache Statistics" but unfortunately there is not a method in the API for this so I don't think it can be easily scripted.


author: Olli Nevalainen
body: The following script works from Confluence 5.5 onward and flushes all the caches:

```
#!/bin/shHOST=$1USERNAME="admin"PASSWORD="xxx"JSESSIONID=`curl --cookie-jar - --data "os_username=$USERNAME&amp;os_password=$PASSWORD" "$HOST/dologin.action" | grep JSESSIONID | awk '{ print $7 }'`curl --cookie JSESSIONID=$JSESSIONID --request DELETE "$HOST/rest/cacheManagement/1.0/cacheEntries"
```


author: Shay Ben-Haroche
body: Hi Olli,

Thanks for the very quick response :smile:

My problem turned out to be the fact I gave the hostname as just "HOST" parameter as just the hostname (MYSERVER) and not the http address to Confluence (<http://MYSERVER:8090).>

Thanks again!


author: Olli Nevalainen
body: Hi Shay,

You seem to get that error from an Apache instance that is sitting in front of your Confluence instance. You would have to ask the administrator of that instance why it is blocking your DELETE request.


author: Shay Ben-Haroche
body: Olli, I've tried your script but am getting this error:

\<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"\>  
\<html\>\<head\>  
\<title\>405 Method Not Allowed\</title\>  
\</head\>\<body\>  
\<h1\>Method Not Allowed\</h1\>  
\<p\>The requested method DELETE is not allowed for the URL /rest/cacheManagement/1.0/cacheEntries.\</p\>  
\<hr\>  
\<address\>Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) Server at localhost Port 80\</address\>  
\</body\>\</html\>

Can you advise?

Thanks!


author: Brendan Patterson
body: You could write a command line script to access the Admin screen llinks mentioned by Alex using curl or something. You can pass credentials in at the command line to authenticated...though you'll have to circumnavigate the second admin login.