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Security Confluence
Asked by Jennifer Jungesblut:

Hey,

I have a question about the security of Confluence. Where could I lock a user who didnt write the right password at the 5th attempt. If not is there a plugin with this functionality?

Best regards


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: As far as I know, the security config options in Confluence are not terribly robust. If you want something more robust, you can use Crowd or integrate some other security manager to give you more options.

As you probably already know, Confluence lets you toggle the Captcha setting in the Admin, but not really do much else to restrict login attempts.

You can also *reset* the number of retries using the Admin. This page tells you how to reset the number of retries:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Resetting+the+Login+Count+for+a+User)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Resetting+the+Login+Count+for+a+User>

Again, you probably saw that page, but I include it here in case other users are curious where some of the basic settings are and what some of the basic functionality is.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there anyway or predefined variable to get position value in confluence?
Asked by SKR:

Hi,

Is there anyway or predefined variable to get position value in user macro?

Because I want to display pages based on user levels

ex: if the user level is administrator then he will be able to access all the sections,

if the user level is manager then he/she will have access for manager area

Please do let me know if you have any similar example.

Regards

Sudarshan


Answers:
author: SKR
body: Hi Matthew,

I have created a custom HTML menu in my wiki pages using user macro, but now I would like use conditions to display some of them which is some thing based on their designation. However here I found that position will be consider as designation and I would like to pull the value of that through predefined variable.

eg:

if(position == 'manager'){

\<li\>\<a href="manager"\>Manager\</a\>\</li\>

}else if(position == 'teamlead'){

\<li\>\<a href="teamlead"\>Team Lead\</a\>\</li\>

}else{

\<li\>\<a href="menu1"\>menu1\</a\>\</li\>

\<li\>\<a href="menu2"\>Menu2\</a\>\</li\>

}

To achieve similar to above example I need the value of that position which will be pulled from confluence database Table.

Please find attached screenshot below

![](../../upfiles/pos_1.png)

Regards

Sudarshan


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Are you aware of the [Visibility plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility) from ServiceRocket?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I'm not sure I understand your use of the terms "position value" and "manager area" and "sections". Can you please provide more details about what you mean by these?


Tags: bob-swift

jira

wiki
Can script runner be used from confluence in order to display summary (aggregateExpression) ?
Asked by Roger Oberg:

Hi!

What a great plugin this is!

I wonder if anyone know if you can use this plugin/jql within confluence to display e.g. the sum of a originalestimate??

For instance this query:

project = TEST and issueFunction in aggregateExpression("Total Estimate for all Issues", "originalEstimate.sum()")

If you use the query now with the jira issue macro, it simply displays the jira issues from the query which is no what I want in this case.

BRs

Roger


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: Hi Roger...

Thanks for that comment. Unfortunately that would be far from straightforward. When you run aggregateExpression it actually makes two requests to JIRA - one to get the search results (where aggExp is a no-op), and then one to compute the actual expression you want.

Some javascript writes the expression output below the search window. Therefore it is not much use in other contexts such as export to excel, or from a confluence request etc.

There are probably various other ways to do this, but first thing that comes to mind is writing your own gadget - not for the faint of heart.

Sorry about that...

comments: author: Roger Oberg
body: Ok, it s not solving my problem then. But thanks for the quick answer!


author: Frank RK
body: Hi,

is there any progress in this issue? My managers want to see some aggregated figures from certain JIRA queries in confluence pages (or JIRA Dashboards)

BR Frank


Tags: addon-com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner

confluence-administration
Update confluence from 4.3.2 to 5.4.1 return exception
Asked by Yves Rolus:

Update confluence from 4.3.2 to 5.4.1 on a windows 2008 R2 return exception:

Exception:

com.install4j.api.beans.UndefinedVariableException: installer:installationID  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerVariables$InstallerReplacementCallback.handleError(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerVariables$InstallerReplacementCallback.getReplacement(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.util.StringUtil.replaceVariable(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerVariables.replaceVariables(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerVariables.replaceVariables(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerVariables.replaceVariables(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.api.beans.AbstractBean.replaceVariables(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.beans.actions.registry.SetRegistryValueAction.getKeyName(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.beans.actions.registry.SetRegistryValueAction$PerformedAction.\<init\>(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.beans.actions.registry.SetRegistryValueAction.execute(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.beans.actions.SystemInstallOrUninstallAction.install(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerContextImpl.performActionInt(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.ContextImpl.performAction(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.controller.Controller.executeActions(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.controller.Controller.handleCommand(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.controller.Controller.start(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.main(Unknown Source)  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)  
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)  
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)  
at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)  
at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)  
at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)


Answers:
author: Yves Rolus
body: Sorry but I did a rollback of Vm after installation so I have only this extract of the log.


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Do you mind to include the ERROR that you see before the exception. You can check them in \<confluence-home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log.


Tags: confluence-administration
Some clients cannot edit excel documents in place with office connector
Asked by Ken Jessen:

I have some clients that cannot edit an excel document in place with confluence's office connector.

All are windows 7. I have a mix of office 2010 and 2013 working and not working - there appears to be little rhyme or reason to it.

I am using Confluence 5.3.


Answers:
author: Ken Jessen
body: I now have it working for all clients. I checked the: Allow authentication tokens in the URL path box on the office connector screen. Not sure why the same URL worked for some folks and not others without this checked.


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Ken,

<br />

There are many possible causes for this issue. I would suggest you to follow our [Office Connector troubleshooting guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Troubleshooting+Read-Only+problems+in+the+Office+Connector) to find the root cause of this issue.

Hope this helps!

<br />

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I configure Confluence User mentions to just use first names?
Asked by Robert Quinn:

We're a small team and @ mentions use first and last names which looks "strange" in comments, any way I can configure them to just use first names?


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi Robert,

You can just mention the person you want first, and then (use backspace to) remove the lastname. The mention will still work.

Hope this helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

confluence-cloud
Search for "unknown attachment?"
Asked by Ed Hawco:

Hello. I use Conflluence (installed) for a software user guide. The software, and thus the user guide, is updated every month or so. For reasons I don't want to get into, I include the relevant release number in the screenshot name (e.g., ColorPicker-7.3.png). That means I have to manually swap out the old screenshots whenever they are updated; as in, when I add a new screenshot it has a different name from the one it's replacing, so it doesn't replace automatically.

Most screenshots only appear on a single page, but a few of them appear on two or three different pages. When I delete an old screenshot and replace it with the new one, I have no way of knowing if the screen appears elsewhere, aside from actually paging through the entire user guide (or relying on memory or deduction). As a result, sometimes the user guide exists with "Unknown Attachment" errors here and there, until such time as I stumble upon them.

Here's my question: is there a way to search for missing attachments (or "Unknown attachment") items? This would sure make it easy for me to avoid this problem. But I can't find any such tool or plugin.

Does anyone know if this can be done? If so, how?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Ed,

You can refer to this guide[How to test for invalid links and images on Confluence pages](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GINT/How+to+test+for+invalid+links+and+images+on+Confluence+pages) by Bob Swift to achieve this.

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Ed Hawco
body: Thanks Jing. I'll check that out.

\[UPDATE\] Um. I had already found that page. It's about 2000% more complicated than what I was hoping for. So the short answer is that there is no built-in, easily accessible way to search for unknown attachments. :-(

That's too bad. Surely I'm not the only person who would find such a (built-in, easily accessible) tool very useful.


author: Isabell
body: bump


Tags: attachment

confluence-administration

search
Why Are Some Columns Showing No Data In the Page Properties Macro?
Asked by Phillip Yero:

We recently upgraded to the new version of Confluence. We have several pages using the page properties macro, all of which are based on the same template. For some reason, two of the columns now display no data at all. There are over 100 documents being displayed on these pages, most of which have data in the affected cells. We have not made any changes to Confluence or to the pages/template specifically.

I went into the macro and made sure that the text actually matched. It did.

One of the affected columns is in the middle of the list, the other is at the end.

What could possibly be causing this to happen?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Phillip Yero
body: So, it turns out that the new version of Confluence treats the 'helpful text' - the grey text that doesn't actually show up unless you're in edit mode - as part of the column heading. The two columns that were displaying blank both had helpful text in the heading cell, and when I removed the text, the columns were populated again.


author: Davin Studer
body: I have one thought that may help. Try rebuilding your index. It is in Confluence admin -\> Content Indexing.


Tags: page-property
Remove "Pages" from breadcrumbs
Asked by Sean King:

Is there a setting to remove the link "Pages" in the breadcrumbs? I don't want the page directory to be part of the breadcrumbs. I know how to do it with css but I'm wondering if there's already an option to do it through the space settings or admin console.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Sean,

As far as I know, there is no option in Confluence which allow you to hide certain breadcrumbs. The best workaround is to hide the breadcrumbs using CSS.

<br />

Regards,

Jing Hwa

comments: author: CynthiaD
body: How would you hide just "Pages" using CSS?


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hi Cynthia,

`#main-header:not(.doctheme-no-override) #breadcrumb-section #breadcrumbs li.first {display: none`}

works with Confluence 5.9.4 and global theme.

Cheers,  
Kirstin


author: Nancy Jaiswal
body: our plugin [Space Hierarchy \& Breadcrumbs](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.hivestone.confluence.plugins.spacehierarchy/overview) does not provide the flexibility to customize the breadcrumbs but it shows breadcrumbs only up to space and not to the page. It also provides flexibility of creating hierarchy of spaces as per requirement and breadcrumbs follow the space hierarchy created.


author: Brandy Bob Urbany
body: Related, is there a way to rename the word "Pages" to something more descriptive?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Well, the other workaround is to customize them if you have access to the VMs and/or decorators. For example, I customized ours by editing the breadcrumbs.vm file. Blogged about it here: [](http://www.confluenza.com/2013/01/31/simplify-confluence-breadcrumbs/)<http://www.confluenza.com/2013/01/31/simplify-confluence-breadcrumbs/>

hth,

matt

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Hi @Matthew J. Horn ,

This page no longer exists; could you post here some insights?


Tags: breadcrumbs

confluence-administration

page
Glossar Add On
Asked by chris alan schubert:

Dear Ladies and Gentleman of Atlassian,

I would like to know if we can create individual Glossar Items by uploading an Excel Field structure. From our current project using Confluence WiKi, we have about 8677 items which would be a nightmare to add manually. Is there any mas upload option defined on field level for such data?

Thanks for your kind support.

Cheers

Chris Alan

Lufthansa German Airlines

[](mailto:chris.schubert@dlh.de)[chris.schubert@dlh.de](mailto:chris.schubert@dlh.de)


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Chris,

What do you mean with Glossar Items? Can you link me to any documentation about it in Google?

If you have 8677 items to manage, most often:

* If you need to create a page for each of them, use [Bob Swift's CLI console](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli),
* If you need to create a table and manage those items like a database, use [Play SQL Spreadsheets](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.playsql-plugin), which supports copy-paste for thousands of records,

Cheers,

Adrien


author: chris alan schubert
body: Hello Adrien,

Thanks for your response, we habe checked out your link for the solution and disuss this at this stage internally, if this is a good way to move forward with the product and the liceses as per costs, efficiency and future requirements.

Cheers and Thanks

Chris Alan
Upgrading to Confluence 5.4 not sure about these unknown plug-ins
Asked by Bryan Trummer - ReleaseTEAM:

I am wanting to update my current version of Confluence (5.3) to Confluence 5.4. When doing the compatbility check with the plug ins I receieve an unknown section. I am not sure what these add-ons are. Has anyone done an upgrade with these add-ons being unknown for compatbility and what were the results?

Unknown Plug-Ins:

RB Storage - Confluence

RB Storage - Core

RB Storage - Servlet

RB Support - Confluence

RB Support - Core


Answers:
author: C. Faysal
body: i got them as well.

no problems on 5.4 here

comments: author: Bryan Trummer - ReleaseTEAM
body: Awesome. Thanks for the info!


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Those are ServiceRocket component libraries that get installed (or upgraded) automatically when you install various other plugins. The using plugins are the ones that are going to have the correct compatibility marked in Marketplace. Admins should **not** manually install/uninstall/disable any of these libraries unless specifically directed by a plugin provider.


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app

upgrade
Changing the password in confulence database
Asked by Bill Mariasoosai:

All:

I am Working on confluence 5.3.1 on linux server.

The backend database is SQL server.

The name of the databse is "confluence" .

The user is "confuser" . It was fully operational.

I try to change the password to the "confuser" in the database "confluence"

and restart the confulence using the command ./start-confluence.sh.

It takes to me the set up wizard. Is this the right way to start the confluence.

Why is it taking me to the start up wizard?

Plase advise me

Thanks for your help

Bzoo


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Did you change the password in **confluence.cfg.xml** under Confluence home? If not, change the **hibernate.connection.password** in that file.

comments: author: Bill Mariasoosai
body: Hi Jobin:

Thanks. I will try it out.

Regards,

Bzoo


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's assuming you want to perform a new installation because it can't access the current one (because you've changed the password)

There's a load of stuff you could run through with the wizard, but you might find a quick dirty fix works better - stop confluence, go to Confluence Home, and look for the file confluence.cfg.xml - edit that in a text editor and you'll find database connection url, user and password in it. Change the password in there to the new password and restart confluence.

comments: author: Bill Mariasoosai
body: Hi Nic:

That is waht we did. But, let me try it out again.

Thanks

Bzoo
Is there a way to auto-link pages in Confluence to the names of other Confluence pages?
Asked by howlettm:

Anyone who is familiar with VoodooPad understands what I'm looking for: the ability to have every page title automatically linked in every page's text. If I have a page called Mexico, then the text on any given page "Once upon a time, in Mexico..." will automatically hyperlink the word Mexico to the page Mexico. Not camel case, that was awful.

Does anyone know of a plug in that has this functionality?

As a writer and an IT systems and management guy, I use VoodooPad and similar tools with this functionality to create huge wikis of information. Now, I need this functionality in a multi-user colalborative format. Anyone able to help?


Answers:
author: Iryna Isay
body: Hi everyone! Did you find a solution? I need to link info from sections of several Confluence pages into one Confluence consolidated table... Any ideas how to do that? (I don't have Multiexcerpt function).


author: Andreas Krau?
body: Hi,

looking for this feature too ... Anyone find somehting ... ???

Andreas


author: Michel Porstend?rfer
body: Hi guys,

i'm also looking for that feature. It will be nice if anyone has a hint.

Best regards


author: Norbert Bede
body: Hi Mike.

i'm looking for the same. Did you find a solution ?

norbert
Cannot rotate date in timeseries confluence chart macro
Asked by Badrinath Ramamurthy:

I am using a chart macro with type=timeseries

I have lots of data and want to see the ticks on the domain axis (which are dates) rotated by 90 degrees going upward.

I tried setting category label postion to up90, but it doesnt seem to work for me.

Using confluence 4.37

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Andy Sch?nemann
body: See <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-41183>


Tags: chart
Permissions
Asked by Andrew Geary:

98798798798798797


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's nothing wrong with the system, but the default "open" setup is definitely an issue (I'd call the scheme a flaw as it breaks so many people's setups)

You'll need to unpick the default first. The default is to have a group called "confluence users", which is used to say "this person can log in". In itself, this is fine. The problem is that this group is then used for other things, such as "can read/write spaces by default".

What you need to do is either

1. Remove all usage of the group in spaces and permissions (most importantly, the default ones, so you don't inherit more when creating new spaces), replacing it with something that still lets the desired users in

2. Create a new group like "confluence login", add ALL your current users to it, then nip into global permissions and change the "can use" from "confluence users" to "confluence login". Then, don't put your restricted user(s) in confluence users...

comments: author: Paulie Rainbow
body: I'm passing this along to our IT as a good trick if we decide to go with Confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
an attempt to checkout a resource was interrupted, and the pool is still live: some other thread must have either interrupted the Thread attempting checkout!
Asked by Odd Vinje:

Getting this and after a short while, confluence responds with a 505. After 10-15 mins it responds ok again.

Seems related to usage of C3P0

This has now happened a few times last few days.

Anyone who knows what causes this error? We are using postgres as database server on a different node.


Answers:
author: Mike Rocheleau
body: We get this as well, Confluence 5.1.5 - we see our tomcat threads spike to whatever our maxthreads is set to at the time (tried between 150 and 1000), and database connections are pinned at maximum then too (tried between 30 and 100).   

It goes away after a while, it could return though, we've had it for maybe a couple of months off and on, sometimes more than others.   

No idea what's really causing it yet...

comments: author: Andy Ukasick
body: Hi. Did you ever figure out what was causing this? We also are experiencing this. We use an Oracle db. We're not allowed to run Confluence as root so we have 'iptables' configured to redirect ports 80/443 to 8080/8443. Confluence is listening on 8080 and 8443, not *++8090++* and 8443.

There are indications that the db driver does a reverse lookup on itself whenever attempting to open a db connection and *sometimes* it chokes at that point (maybe no response or response takes too long? Or??). Whatever the root cause, during periods of high activity we will start getting interrupted thread errors in the resource pool (C3P0) and DEADLOCK thread errors. It eventually clears, but while it happens, Confluence just hangs and hangs.


Tags: postgres
Unknown macro: {report-table}
Asked by Kratzer Automation AG:

HelloWe have a problem with missing macros; but I don't know, witch plugins have to be reinstalled (see attachement)Sincerly, Thomas Mueller


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: @Kratzer Automation AG @Michael Nassette

* This is definitely with the Service Rocket-Reporting Add-on.
* Please check if add-on is installed and also check if license is uploaded.

Thank You


author: MJ
body: The attachment you are refering to is not visible.  
However, the report-table macro appears to be part of the following plugin:  
[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting>

Please check this plugin under manage plugins on your instance in order to see if this module has been enabled or not (or maybe the whole plugin has been disabled)