Bill Bailey Expert

Well if all your users are authenticated elsewhere on the network and your server is behind a firewall, then just set up Confluence to allow anonymous users. Then you can do what you want.

if the user name and email address are identical, then you can just delete the internal accounts. There is no merge function

yes, CTRL-A, CTRL-C, the CTRL-V on the new page. On the images, I don't remember exactly what happens (I do it so fast), either they are linked from the original page, or just don't appear at all (I think the later). When I split a page, I just copy the page (using Tools->Copy) to bring over the images, then delete out the…

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Copy the CONTENTS of the original page while in edit mode, then paste into a new page. That will leave ALL attachments behind. Then you can insert the images you want. Typically I replace all images after Word import as the import process can somehow break up the image into many parts.

Yes, deleting an image inserted into a page does not remove the attachment. You need to go to Tools -> Attachments and delete it there. BTW, I often copy the contents of a page converted from Word to another page so I can delete the original page to get rid of all the attachments. It takes a long time to manually delete…

The UWC is the right way to go, but you can't use as is. Start with that code base, and modify it for your needs. You will also want to do transcoding to map to Confluence macros where possible (sometimes to user macros). It is an involved project, but the more work you put into it, the better the results (talking about…

Not that I know of. It is frustrating. If I have to delete a lot of attachments, I copy out the content on the page temporarily, and then delete the page, followed by creating a new page with the same content, reattaching the attachments I want. Not a great solution, but sometimes faster.

User macro?

Not sure what is causing your issue, Mark. But the first step in diagnosing the issue is viewing the source. A tool you shouldn't be without is the https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview It will give you a ghost of a chance of figuring out…

Having been a Confluence admin for 5+ years, I would go with separate spaces. With that approach, you can control permissions and visibility. Trying to manage labels on 1000+ pages will not be fun. And adding a space does not create bloat, just an easy way to organize information. The other reason for breaking up content…

Yeah, this does take some work. I have done it recently for a client. To do intelligently, you also need to convert any MediaWiki templates to Confluence macros to save on manual work later, which also implies creating some user macros for the mapping. It takes time, but reduces user anxiety over moving to Confluence. You…

Are the other users logged into Confluence, or just viewing the page as anonymous?

It takes some getting used to, but generally, highlight the specific element you are interested in, then select inspect element to review the rules that are being applied of overwritten.

Where exactly are you adding this? And there is a similar tool available for Chrome (forget the name). But you need it to see if this rule is appearing, but being overwritten, to identify what CSS file and rule is conflicting. Here are some pages that use this rule:…

Are you using Firebug in Firefox (or similar) to make sure you have the right class chain for what you are trying to change? I have been fairly successful in getting CSS to work. For example, this code will change the style for H1 on pages: .wiki-content h1 { color: #3B73AF; font-weight: 400; border-bottom-width: 2px;…

Synchronyis the name of the collaborative editing tool in the Cloud (currently beta I think). You would have to ask how to disable the plugin and revert the content before exporting the content.

What is soon? They started moving 6.x features into the 5.10 release, I assume because of delays? And yes, I see that it is still a beta feature?

I think that Synchrony is the collaborative editing tool and currently it only exists in the cloud. I think it is slated as a server 6.x feature. So you need to file a case with Atlassian on how to migrate that content.

I am currently doing this kind of conversion for a client, starting with the code base of the Universal Wiki Converter code with some modifications, with some custom scripts to clean up the input to UWC. Then UWC writes to a test instance of Confluence. I would say that if you have a 100 or less pages, just quicker to…

Yes, I have done something similar where I started with a user macro, then repackaged it later as a plugin for easier deployment. And yes it is recommended to delete the user macro code before.

Or you need the Scroll Office Exporter from K15t. It allows you to do a better job of Word export (even though I question the sanity of exporting Confluence to Word )

Yeah, I just discovered that earlier today when trying to find a workaround. Booleans in user macros were actually evaluating as true/null in earlier versions, but now evaluate as true/false. So the classic construct used below (which should work per Velocity docs), is actually only testing not_null/null: ## @param…

Usually anything of that size I just upload to the restore area of the website (actually anything over 10MB). I have just had to many problems restoring via a browser upload. Of course, this means you have to have OS-level access to the server.

How large is the file? You can get errors trying to upload via the browser if it exceeds the limits.

As a follow up, there is the MultiExcerptMacro that can pull content from multiple pages, and from multiple locations on the same page. But you will need to insert them in a one-to-one connection, source to (one or more) destination(s). I use it extensively, and it shows available for the cloud.

You have to build a one-to-one connection with the excerpt macro. You can have multiple on one page to pull content from several pages, but there is no way to do wildcarding or label filter to have just one instance of the macro to pull from pages that match.