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Is there any way by which I can integrate 'podcasting' with confluence?

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a macro that produces the green "+" and "-" icons that allows user to reveal/hide content in a page, such as the one on Confluence Documentation Home under Recently Update?

Ronnie 

Hi Ronnie,

No, but you could create a user macro to do this, for example:

For more information: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Macros

Agnes.

Thanks Agnes!

I have another question. I'm putting together a FAQ and I want to do it in a similar style as the Confluence FAQ. Is there a plugin that collects page statistics? In particular, something that supports collecting number of times a page is viewed over a period of time and pages that are recently modified (similar to the Recently Updated section on the dashboard)?

Ronnie

Can we use WIKI Markup notations in Decorator and other velocity files ?

-Hari .

How to Override confluence macros in user defined theme ? Any examples are there?

--Hari.

Does anyone have experince with charging interal users in a corperate enviroment for wiki use? We are trying to devise a way to recover costs associated with the upkeep of our wiki and need to know what kind of charge models others are using. Thanks!

I need help with a problem concerning thumbnails in my gallery. I changed the files, but the thumbnails are still the same as the old attachements - even after updating links. Is there somewhere the thumbnails are cached that I could delete them or rebuild them based on the modified files?

Help

I am new to Wiki.Can any share some experience about creating HTML forms and Online Surveys (using yes/no radio buttons , submit button etc ) using Confluence wiki ?

Hi,

Can cany body tell, how to change the "add news" tab to "add blog" tab in "add content"

Which file i need to modify.

Thank you

I am trying to determine how to integrate my JIRA roadmap data onto a Confluence page similar to integrating other JIRA reports.  Is it a similar procedure and I'm just missing something?  Is it possible?

When I pull the JIRA roadmap and place it in my confluence page, it has links back to JIRA.  Is there a way I can get rid of the links and make it strictly read-only?

I found the files jiraissues.vm and jiraissues-xp.vm that display the data as links, but when I remove the links nothing happens.  I've tried bouncing the server and turning off velocity caching as well, but the links persist... spooky.  Any ideas anybody???

We are looking for a way to access the database we've setup with confluence directly from the wiki itself. Is there a way to do this? Currently we are using MySQL with our Confluence setup.

Hi,

Is it possible to change the color of the text which is used as a link.

by default it is blue.

Hi

I am new to Confluence. I am looking a way to integrate Daily Result - Emails on a Wiki Page to show latest results of a

project.

Kindly guide me how to go about it.  My email is hdhawan@cisco.com

Thanks

Hitashi 

Hi,
Can we use macros of metadata plugin along with Scaffold Plugin?
If so give the steps and some examples for the issue.
With Regards,
Dhivya.M

Hi

I would like to use the advanced search macro to search the titles and actual content of pages. I am trying to search all content for a specific word, I want the results displayed in order of rating, and I want to have the rating displayed if it has been rated once or more.
Here is the search form I have created:

When I enter content to search on, an IE error is displayed stating "Null".

However if I replace the query with label, it works, however it only returns pages where labels have been added. I want the title and content to be searched.

 Any Ideas?

many thanks

Louise

Dumb question, guys, but we're still learning to use Confluence...

How does an administrator access and change the default colors of our Confluence pages beyond the "Colour Scheme" options? 

For instance, I want to change more than the text color - I want to change the background from white to black, change the gray stuff around the edges, etc.  Does this require me digging into the Velocity side of things?

Thanks.

Hello,

Why Confluence is not indexing help files (.chm) ?

What can i do to search the chm files through confluence ?

Comments/ suggestions are most welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Ganesan

I would need to show a list of the last 5-10 e-mails in certain email account (that is pulled by Confluence) in a page. Is there an easy way to do this? I checked the plugins available and could not find anything?

Thanks!

 David

We are creating a wiki site to document a large engineering project (AguaClara). I am struggling with the best way to present the equivalent of technical journal articles in the wiki. One question is whether it should all be in one page or should be split up. I currently like the idea of an article all being on one page, but then we need an elegant navigation method. Here is my dream.

I would like an

{outline}

macro that takes the headings in a document and turns them into buttons for opening and closing the content beneath them. If a level 1 heading has several level 2 headings inside, then opening level 1 would only open the text associated with level 1 and show the level 2 headings. To get to the content under the level 2 headings they would need to be opened. As headings at the same level are opened the sibling headings would automatically be closed.
I am aware of the

{cloak}

and 

{expand}

macros, but they don't offer this functionality of nested levels and automatic use of existing headings.

Customising Login page:

I want to customise the login page. Have seen no instructions on how to do it. Anyone could point me out how to do this?

Thank you!

David 

I am trying to create a knowledgebase using Confluence. I was able to create pages as I'd like them to be viewed and can make each of these templates. My problem is in the data entry- at the time when users enter data in the template their information may be incomplete. For example the template may read...

(company)

suppose that user does not know the email. I still would like the user to be able to enter the email at a later point without having to use the edit page. Is this possible???

The actual pages will contain much more data than the example presented.

This may be easy to do, I don't know since I'm new to Confluence. Currently I'm tracking RFPs for our company and rather than maintaining a master list, I want confluence to do this for me, and while the checklist macro seems to be able to do some of this for me, it's not doing everything I want at the moment. Is there a way I can label specific information within the child-page which is then sort-able? For instance, within each of these pages can I label the price somehow, so that when I run the checklist function from the parent page it will fill in the price for me in the table? or can I group labels together, so that I could reflect all the RFPs associated with one salesperson?

Am I thinking about this problem in the right way? Any direction would be apprciated, thanks!

Hey pretty new to this stuff, was wondering if anyone could help me, I'm trying to combine the features of table-data and table-plus ie the dynamic add row of table-data and the sort ability of table-plus

Does anyone know how to add forms (with radio buttons and text fields) to a page without having to go through Form Field Markup for Templates?

Does anybody know how labels can be added to Confluence consisting of multiple words e.g. "Windows Vista"? Currently the input is split up in separate labels e.g. "Windows" and "Vista".

 Thanks,

 Andries 

You can create templates for pages, is this possible for 'Add News'?

I want to have a rating macro added automatically/in selected template so that users don't have to add the code manually.

Thanks,
Pa.

Is there any way to force users to associate a page with a parent....

Some of ower users are lazy

We have an ideas feedback page where users can add, vote, comment etc on ideas.

The rating macro is rate:theme-dynamic.

The problem is that anyone can undo/reset the voting (as everyone needs rights to be able to vote,add ideas, delete their ides etc).

Is there any macro that I could use here where people can only vote but not reset the voting?

Thanks,

Pa.

Might be a basic question (sorry if it is)-

I want to import lots of content (pages etc) from 1 wiki to another. Both are on different locations.

What's the easiest and quickest way possible to do this?

Once I have imported/duplicated the pages do I have to edit all links etc manually (depending on whether links are external or internal) or is there any easier way?

Thanks,

Pa.

Probably not the greatest location to ask this but, is there any plugin or extension available that would allow me to add label-like functionality to attachments? I'd like to be able to display all attachments from a certain space that contain a certain label using a macro similar to

{contentbylabel}

Maybe something like

{attachmentbylabel}

Hi
I created a nav map (see attachment). Is there any way to highlight/distinguish (different colour etc) which page I'm currently on?

Thanks,
patrick.

On another note then, is it possible to display content that has no label? We want all (or at least most) of our content to have labels, but as it stands now, its difficult to go through each individual page to determine if there are labels or not. I have tried various searches with using "" or NULL and neither work.

 Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

Our team has a huge amount of files attached to a single page and it is becoming difficult to find the documents as the list continues to grow. Is there a better way to organize the attachments? Like create a folder view or something of that sort?

Any help is appreciated.

I'm trying to import a space from another wiki site.Obviously I have Admin rights. My colleague exported and sent me the zip folder.

I've looked at the Confluence guide http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Space and followed it:

Admin->Backup and Restore->'upload a zipped backup to Confluence', slecect zip folder and click on 'upload and restore'.

PROBLEM- afterwards I can't find the space....I tried a second time and it tells me

• A space with the key '~D045932' already exists. Please delete it before restoring a space with the same key.

 It's probably something obvious but where can I find the space? I've checked under spaces but no joy...

 lastly- if I manage to import sucessfully the other spaces won't be deleted or anything?

Thanks,

Patrick

HI,

Probably a simple question but I can't find the answer...

How can I receive an e-mail update everytime a comment is added to a page?

cheers,

Patrick.

Hi,
I'm creating a wiki and need to have over 300 pdfs. These aleady exist on another system. Is there any possible way to run a mass import?

Thanks,
Patrick

Hi does anybody know if there is a plugin to extend the user profile...

My company wan'ts us to add some fields like mobile number, home number, address, department, date of birth....stuff like that

It would be cool to have "add field" in the profile area so the admin could add required fields..

Hi, I'd like to be able to easily identify which pages in all spaces that use a particular plugin OR macro, maybe resulting in a page that lists the plugin name, and all pages that use it, and/or a parameter to specify one plugin/macro and then list all the pages that use the specified plugin/macro. Is that possible?

TIA. Darcy MAX

Hi,

As a partner of Atlassian, we design our own plugins and layouts. I'm confinced that Confluence is the best Enterprise Wiki available on the web. However, I think it would be a nice feature if you could edit particular places in your design (such as the header or maybe the page-meta-data divs), using the administrator area of Confluence, to add links or other content. I know something like that is possible by using the

macro, but for our end-users this is way too complicated.
Any proposals?

Thanks in advance.

Michael Bogaard
http://www.e-id.nl

Hi, can someone help? I can't find information anywhere about this...

Is there a way of linking to an email address through Rich Text, rather than writing [mailto:someone@somewhere.com] in Wiki Markup? Thanks for assistance.

Hi,

I want to display content from another website (online help library website in a frameset layout, is from our company) within my page. So I use [Website name|website url] . This works but when I click on any link within the 'external data' it doesn't remain within my page (like a frame) but exits my page.

I've used the above code for linking to a normal website and when I click on a link it navigates to the new page BUT keeps the content within my page (if you know what I mean).

Is there any way that I can do this?

Thanks,

Patrick.

Hello,

We are currently running an instance of Confluence for the technology team to do design work, requirements, and system documentation. Other departments in our organization are interested in using a wiki as well, and we are trying to determine if we should add spaces for them on our current instance or create another instance entirely. Some of the concerns about sharing a single instance are around our integration with jira and other Atlassian products we use for development. Any suggestions moving forward for determining whether one or two instances would make more sense?

Thanks!
Alison

Hi,

on a main page I want to display 8 posts from another page so I have the code below. Is it possible to insert a divider between each post automatically?

Currently the system inserts the following automatically-Would it be possible to insert some code below the 'posted' line and then a divider? 

Posted at 22 Oct @ 6:33 PM by  posters name | O Comments | 0 Edit

column:width=80%

columnrollover:class=title-display|over=title-display}

Patrick.

I would like to implement the following into our confluence system. Can anyone tell me if there is a feature like this?

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Confluence+and+Human+Resources+Policy+Acknowledgements

Hi there,

I have two WikiSites and they have some similar content - so my question is: is it possible to show a snippet of the content (the similar) of one page on another page.

Could this maybe be realized by labels, anchors and frames?

Hope that you can help me

thanks

Michael

HI,
I have to import a space with 135 pages and many attachments. There were problems with attempting to export all in 1 go (timeout, fail, no apache in front of wiki). So I did a lot of exports- a few pages at a time, I have about 11 zipped folders now.

What's the easiest method to import these now?
Can I take all the files and insert into 1 zipped folder and then attempt to import?

Thanks,
patrick.

1. I'd like to build a "company facebook" gallery page that's dynamically sortable by first name, last name, and eventually, department. Right now I have the Gallery plugin working on a page with 200+ security card photos, each named after their owner ("roger_d_mexico.jpg").  At the least, I need to display the image filename as its title caption (perhaps with some elision and case changing in javascript or CSS, so that "roger_d_mexico.jpg" becomes "Roger D Mexico"). Is there a way for me to customize the Gallery plugin to load the attachment filenames and file paths to use in an array, and if so, can someone point me in the right direction?

2. Is there a way to perform operations on large numbers of attachments? As a hack, it seems each image's comment field could be used to store the name / department data, but I can't do them all by hand. 

3. Is there a way to set each users default pic myself, or can this only be done by the individual user? I think it would really encourage adoption if each user already had their security card pic uploaded (even if it's just to replace it with a goofy avatar).

Would anyone be able to help me with changing the font on a particular page (ie. not across a whole Confluence space)?

I tried attaching a simple CSS style sheet (as in

 "body{font-family: Verdana, serif}"

, for example) to the particular page, then using the STYLE import parameter, but it doesn't work (or, more likely, I don't know how to do it properly).

A simple "div" macro would be great (as in "

{div:class=warningMacro|style=padding:3px;border-width:5px}This is a div example{div}" 

for example), but I don't know how to structure the macro to change font style for the page in Confluence.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Contacts Management

We are looking into a good way to store contact information. Ideally the application shall be well integrated with Confluence and/or Google Apps (which we use). Anybody has any feedback or hint on this? - thx.

Help with a bit of strange request.  I'm working with a client that is asking for a particular implementation for a documentation site.

They wanted a very stripped down "read-only" version of the site.  Except for the content and Nav tree, I basically removed everything but the breadcrumbs, and Powered by Atlassian.

However they want a viewer to be able to submit comments about a page, but not have the comment display on the page.  They basically want them availabel to a group of editors.

I realize this is sort of anti-wiki and I spent some time discussing the positives of  the current approach and the negatives of their request.  But they are "right" so I've been trying to find an elegent solution.

I've got a submit comment link that is using a mailto and i grab a bunch of attributes (space and page, URL, etc) and include in the body.  I really hate this solution but I can't figure out something better.  I tried using createpage.action and hijacking "email this page" plugin, but haven't found something much better.

Anyone have any creative ideas?

thanks,

My rating results appears as different colour stars.
Is it possible for results to be all the same colour?

{rate:theme=dynamic}

thanks,
Patrick

Hi,
In my site (pages within a space) I have 2 columns- 70% for main info and 30% for my navigation bar.
If a user users the search function (search box) or clicks on a label or tag in the tag cloud then the page they're directed to has a different style to mine (doesn't display the navigation bar column)
Is it possible to keep my navigation column throughout the pages/anyway to edit the layout/design of the pages?

Thanks,
Patrick

Hi All,

I am new to confluence. is there a macro which can give me pagecount for a particular label? which gives me output like

–
Manoj

HI,

I'm using a navmap as my horizontal navigation bar in pages, and for the pages I want in the navmap I include 'im_vav' as a label. However in my navigation bar the page titles appear in alphabetical order  (left to right). Is there any way that I can control the layout (i.e. 'home first', then 'my ideas' etc.)

 
{navmap:im_nav\|title=Please select a category to browse ideas by:\|wrapAfter=6\|cellWidth=70\|cellHeight=35}

Thanks,

Pa

HI,

One more question-

I want to display ideas created by people. I have two different methods but am wondering can I combine them so that I can have the horizontal nav bar (2 )and I can control what appears under e.g. recently update ideas, my ideas (1), all ideas

1. Just displays calendar icon and idea summary and date in brackets.

2. Horizontal bar with 'title' author' and 'date' headings'.

underneath that calendar icon and idea summary author name and date and time of posting

Code used is:

1.

{ideatheme-myideas:spaceKey=name of space}

2.

{blog-posts:content=titles}

Thanks,

Pa

When I place an external link in Confluence and then select the link the page navigates away from Confluence to the link. Is there a way I can make the link so that it opens in a separate window and confluece stays up as well?

I'm using the basic calendar plug in and would like to know if anyone tell me how to move it from one page to another.  Every time I try to do it, I lose all of the events that I set up.  Thank you.

I cannot seem to locate any references to a macro that counts the number of rows in table-data and repeating-data? Does one exist?

We are currently using Confluence 2.7x.

Is there a tool/plugin available to automatically update content/page titles for multiple pages using a find/replace function?

Hello,
Is possible to export confluence wiki space or page subtree to CHM (MS Help 1) ?
I'm aware about the ability of exporting to pdf and Word. I need CHM.
I can't find any plug-in for exporting to CHM.
I guess it should be easer to create such plug-in that pdf/word export as CHM is almost pure HTML.
I'll be appreciate for any links to such plug-in(s). Thanks.

How can I subscribe other people to some particular page changes notifications (to make them watch) ?

Hi,

We're running a secured Confluence site (2.10.3, Oracle 10g and Weblogic AS) within my company (its in the DMZ, so we can access it from everywhere). Users are authenticated outside Confluence through our corporate Active Directory. Now some departments/co-workers ask for anonymous access to specific spaces and blogs. We think that there is no way to combine the two different uses of Confluence into the current site. So we think of setting up a second Confluence site which is hosted within the secured zone and connect it to a reverse proxy and to the AD (some co-workers may have to publish content, pages and blogposts with their real name; since the Confluence site is in the secured zone, a co-workers needs to be at the office or connected through VPN). The reverse proxy connects to the secured Confluence site via an anonymous account. Employees connect to the reverse proxy via their Active Directory account. It should be also possible to Question: has anyone done this before? Does this work? Are there particular issues/best practices for this? Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks in advance.

Greetings, Martin

I'm trying to create what's like a table/tip with an image sitting on top of it on the far right hand side. I though this would have been very simple....

I want on icon sitting directly on top of a table

I've created a column (in a section) and on the next line a 'tip'.

however confluence is inserting a gap in between the icon and the tip.

Any way to get this to work? I've limited access to plug-ins...

Thanks

Patrick.

Hi all,

I've got two issues here concerning the search function that I can't solve with using the search/help here nor with Google:

First: In German language there are many many words that consist of two words put together. Example: "Einstiegsmaske" consists of Einstieg(s) and Maske. Now when using the search function I would normally expect a wiki to find any page that hosts the word Einstiegsmaske not only when searching for the full string (Einstiegsmaske) or the first part of the string (Einstieg) but also when searching for the last part of the string "maske". But that is not the case. The only possibility (so far) seems to be to use a label "Maske" with every page that has Einstiegsmaske in it. That is too much expense.

Second: It seems as if labels are not regarded when ordering search results. Are search results ordered priority-wise anyway? I don't think so. That would be really helpful. Now when I have two pages that are displayed when searching for a word that is in both pages and one page has a label that is that very word, that page will not be displayed first in the case that normal sort order (alphabetically?) would display that page second.

My question now is if I'm doing something wrong or if I can configure Confluence to work as expected. Perhaps there is a search plugin that is able to bring those functions? I didn't find any information on the search function or search plugins so far so any help is much appreciated. 

Kind Regards

Marcel

[table-plus]

Anybody would know if is possible change the style of rows of table-plus to apply alternative row color ?

Thank you so much.

Hi,

I want to sort my table as per year (Eg: 2007,08,09,10). Currently it's sorting as per the date (01-Dec-08, 02-jan-10, 05-aug-07). I used the syntax like below:

.

Let me klnow if anybody can help me on this issue.

Thanks'
Rinku

hi all,

how to use the rich text editor in new velocity page?

is there anyway I could use more Calender attributes such as the attributes available on  twiki calender: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/CalendarPlugin 

Eg: attribute

on the standard Confluence calender https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CAL/Confluence+Calendar+Plugin

Please advise