Mike Rathwell Expert

Wendy, Tom beat me to the punch to say essentially exactly the same thing so you have two votes in favor of staying server rather than cloud for pretty much the same reasons. Many are the days where I think that cloud is the way to go for the reasons you cite but mostly on days where I just wish somebody else was looking…

Jake, I just tried it. The only way I could make it work was with option "2" above. I arbitrarily made a section, then a column at 70% width and a subsequent 30% width column. I put the livesearch macro in the 30%. Not elegant and not strictly forced fully to the right side but is right side-ish. YMMV It did NOT work to…

Assuming this is a macro that displays something specific (like a chart macro or the like) there are a couple of ways you can do it. * Select the macro and click the "right justify" button. The macro will move to the right side. * If you want something else on the LEFT side of the page:* Create a section (just use the {…

I am only making conjecture here, as well, but I suspect that the chart macro assumes the rather typical 72ppi used for web pages; the one in Excel will (also conjecture) be producing charts at a much finer resolution for crisp images when printing (which will also be evident on screen since virtually every display these…

Janene, Try using the chart macro. I use it heavily here and it basically will draw charts on any tabular data inside it. Not only on tables but I heavily use Bob Swift's SQL macro and render data direct from SQL queries into really useful charts. Hope this helps

Kathleen, Jonathan's approach is certainly the right first step; so you don't end up with content stomping on each other, have your friendly neighborhood Confluence admin move the content you want preserved over to the "new" user personal space. You may still end up with content now in there that the owner can't touch so…

I say "cold turkey".Excel: Just Say No

George, That is utterly doable with Confluence out of the box. In the space permissions, you can set group accesses as/how you want them on any space with quite fine grained control. That is the way I do it in my shop; basically it lets me worry about making the wiki do what I want and access is automagically done as IT…

It would help to know the use case you are going for. IF it is to have a page appearing in a different space or page for organizational effort, the include macros cited are perfect. Do note, however, if it is to expose a page outside a protected area, unless permissions are explicitly set on that page, permissions will be…

Timothy, I've been through this as well and, to perhaps boil it down a bit for you (and this assumes you have PKI issued certs and that you have both JIRA and Confluence accessed via SSL), there are a couple of pages that will be of great help for you (the Oracle pages really are not all that helpful) * Common OpenSSL…

For this among other methods of escalation/notifications, I added the "Notification Assistant" plugin. Basically anything that can be a JQL query, filter, or event can generate custom email messages. Best tool I got for this purpose ever and it saves me writing and maintaining Groovy scripts. mike

Robert, The official Atlassian position is to keep the heap as small as you can without getting heap memory errors. This ostensibly solves the "stop the world" garbage collection issues. Fine. Makes sense. But, I found that while it would be alright almost all the time, edge cases that really hammered the heap (like…

I've not run Confluence on SQL Server to compare it directly but, given how SQL Server locks records (by temporarily locking the entire table), I've seen massive performance hits on other applications where we've had to implement that (for a variety of reasons) over PostgreSQL or even Oracle. Case in point, Sharepoint…

Joel, Can you give me the SQL query that would show the data stored in the JIRA database? I have been looking for values entered there but see what appears to be description of the table but not the actual data. Even without an import function, I would be happy to write a SQL query to write the values as needed in the…

Michael, I just had a look at it as I have the same consideration. I wonder if this isn't an improvement request to Atlassian to have the date displayed based on the LOCAL user's locale setting rather than imposed by Confluence? I can't find a way, currently to do this....

I really need to know this as well...

Srikanth, I think Nic's comment that your last "note" is where the answer lies. If you use a AD or whatever group to provide access to the instance or a space, it counts against your license. SO... if your IT dept added users to an AD group that can access Confluence, it'll count against the license. I can't remember where…

I have been selecting blocks of text in Confluence, then right-click and choose "copy". Will this work for you? Seems to come across very cleanly to just about any other application

Jeff,Perhaps there is a bug when it is running on Server 2012. Whether I run that as an administrator or not, a window will flash and then disappear.

I have reasons for running my Atlassian stack on windows. Some of them good ones...

It is indeed on Windoze... Server 2012. I've validated that the general OS can see the contents of that variable

I am indeed familiar. I might live in California but I am a misplaced Canadian which is... "British lite"

Geez Nic, I wish I wouldn't have had a mouth full of soda when I saw the "Email, blarg, do it because I said so and my hair is so pointy you must automatically what I dribble think wabble bleep bleep" caricature. Now I have to clean it off my display from spitting it out when I started laughing.

Both Daniel and Nic have good thoughts on this. Interestingly enough, I am currently facing just such a request from one of our groups to handle support requests from the groups sales-beings who "need massively urgent support to do this special case and massively difficult integration for a 10 minute demonstration that if…

Ian, First off, getting cast in the deep end like that... good luck. However, I am sure you'll win out. I went through similar not long ago (not as huge of a leap as you have) going from JIRA 6.0.x to 6.4.x. That, in itself was painful enough. I think your first step would be to review all the release notes (here) between…

That DOES make a difference yes. A) I dunno how to do that and B) that's a damned fine use case. I'll have to investigate that. Basically it would be almost like a JIRA transition making sure that a user is in a particular project role, in this case a Project Lead. I could use that. If either of us or others find it or…

Zoltan, I have several cases like that in my environment. If you go to the specific space permissions, you can set a discrete individual or individuals as admin on that space. Generally I try to avoid specifically granted permissions as that can rapidly get out of control but your use case is a valid one and this will work…

Nic, Your suggestion of these two products may have solved, for me, not just a handful but a bucket full of things I am working on. To wit: * We collaborate with several other environments in our company around the world. It appears that the Backbone product will remove our need to have all JIRA instances configured as the…

Jen, I'm not sure if you're doing this in JIRA Cloud or on a server. If Cloud... can't help you there. If it's on your own server I do this all the time myself and it is, with JIRA, surprisingly easy. The steps I take are: * Build a brand new, totally empty JIRA server of the version you want (same as production or…

Ken, When you put in links to your pages, do you use "hard" URLs (like a web link taken from the browser address bar) or are you using links put in by using the "[" link shortcut or the "Search" and/or "Recently Viewed" from the link menu? I have seen this where people used a hard link and it broke every time. The relative…