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Confluence 4.2 - Standard Page Footer Removed?

Gavin Fowler

I have a quick question following an upgrade from confluence 4.1.9 to confluence 4.2. In my previous version (4.1.9), on each page, (including the login / logout & dashboard, as well as user created pages) I would see a page footer that indicated which version of Confluence was being run, along with other details such as "contact Atlassian".

Looking through the release notes for 4.2 i do not see this functionality being deprecated, but I no longer have this "footer" information present in my upgraded versions for confluence (non production sandbox, or production).

Can anyone confirm whether this functionality has been removed, possibly the reasoning behind the change, and what steps i can use to recreate the footer?

Apologies in advanced if i've missed something very obvious.

Gavin.

Accepted answers

Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi Gavin,

Here you go:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25297

Workaround to fix the issue for now also available. Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Septa Cahyadiputra

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Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi Gavin,

For your information, documentation theme footer is configurable which might be the cause of your issue. Please refer to the screenshot below

You can access the mentioned page by following choosing "Documentation Theme" >> Configure Theme.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Septa Cahyadiputra

Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi Gavin,

In regards to your issue, I can confirm that in Confluence 4.2 the footer is not removed. So, it seems that there might be some customization that resulted to your issue.

Could you please double check if there are any customization done on your instance. You could check the following configuration

Global Theme (Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Global Theme)
Layouts (Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Layouts)
Stylesheet (Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Stylesheet)
Custom HTML (Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Custom HTML)
Execute this SQL Query to your database
SELECT * FROM decorator;

If you see any customization there, please try to revert it back to default one by one and see if it helps.

If the suggested method above does not help, we really recommend you create a support ticket at our support channel so that we could check your configuration in private.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Septa Cahyadiputra

Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi Gavin,

Here you go:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25297

Workaround to fix the issue for now also available. Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Septa Cahyadiputra

Gavin Fowler

Hey Septa

Many thanks for the quick reply - it seems linked to ther selection of the "documentation theme" all is okay in "default theme" and strangle it's always fine in the "administration screens". I will look into this further and add more detailed comment(s).

Gavin.

Gavin Fowler

Thanks Septa, this is where the problem lies. I have nothign in the Header / Footer in my configuration of the documentation theme. I should be able to reconstruct something now. Just out of interest, can you provide a sample footer and/or indicate where these these configurations were saved in version 4.1.x of confluence so i can retrieve the footer from my backup prior to upgrading to version 4.2.x

Many thanks!!

EDIT: I restored confluence 4.1.9 in non production and oddly enough even 4.1.9 shows blank for the header / footer. I'm guessing the default(s) must have changed between versions, so any sample/example woudl be most appreciated.

Gavin.

Septa Cahyadiputra

Hi Gavin,

It is weird if there are nothing configured on your "Documentation Theme" configuration if this issue only appear when you use "Documentation Theme"

Default footer of Confluence should be located at this location

&lt;Conf_Install_Dir&gt;/confluence/decorators/includes/content-footer.vm

Have you checked the previously mentioned configurations. I suspect that the cause of your issue might be due to "Custom HTML" configuration.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Septa Cahyadiputra

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