Mike Rathwell Expert

PLEASE someone answer this. I have the same thing... *sigh*

Glad that helped Stan. Also, unless you have a specific reason for using MySQL, I heartily recommend moving to PostgreSQL; it is MUCH faster. When I moved from MySQL to PostgreSQL, one of the pages I turned up when looking at how to do such had the comment, "There are lots of pages saying how to move from MySQL to…

Stan, This does have a big component of DB speed in it; which database server are you running? The other thing that leaps out at me is to set you Xms to the same value as Xmx. I can't remember where I ran across that little tidbit but I did see it in a Confluence tuning page that suggested that as a way to have the space…

Tony, Without any details at all about what is in your SP site, that is a pretty big question. I am not sure there is any definitive "tool" that does it automatically so you'll likely be faced with migrating content from one to the other. The bigger thing you'll need to do is find a way of changing usage behavior from…

Chào anh Phi, You're kind of asking two questions; one how to request access and one to delete a page. Request access will send an email to the last editor of a restricted page (at least as of 5.3) to ask to grant you access. This also doesn't override the space permissions. Deleting pages is another story; on my…

Nic,I am looking at it with an (almost) apples to apples comparison between one on PostgreSQL and MySQL... That is the biggest diff I can see. Add in that a few weeks ago, Oracle had a big announcement about a new version of MySQL that was 3X faster than the previous version which "made it a competitive performer" (not X…

Bart, You didn't mention what DB you have behind Confluence. Given that it is a highly DB activity intensive application, that also makes a huge difference. I run mine on Windows 2012R2 (I have reasons for that as much as I prefer LInux for the platform) with a PostgreSQL DB. One of our other divisions run Confluence on a…

Mario, I ran into this also but in a different way. I set up a SQL server as a datasource to tomcat and had to put a username/password in the URL. There was no way to get around it even though the view I had didn't need authentication. For that, I set up a service account to get access. If I could also suggest an alternate…

Gilbert, I agree that Confluence (with little in the way of plugins added) is somewhat limited for content formatting. It gets the job done but it is somewhat rudimentary. There are a couple of approaches I can suggest: * Make the content visually interesting in Confluence by way of adding a variety of content formatting…

Gordana, Do you have your Confluence and JIRA systems set up as trusted applications? Rather than duplicating the text over to JIRA, if you have your systems set up as trusted applications, you could select the short description of your requirement and a little "create JIRA issue" icon will pop up. That'll let you create…

Neil, I suggest you spend some time on the features that are new in the new version of Confluence. There are a TON of them between the 3.5.x and 5.6.x (I'm on 5.7 now, actually) versions. For example, the thing that pushed me to finally get off my butt and upgrade was a personal one; i wanted (needed) to be able to include…

When I went from 3.5 to 5.(something; can't remember now) this was a big deal for some and I had many bitter complaints. Some people really loved editing directly in wiki markup. That said, it's not TOTALLY gone; you can still start typing wiki markup but it automagically now turns into the macro/value you typed as wiki…

Jat, As you'll have found, there are a few plugins that do a reasonable job of at least some "spreadsheet" functionality. That said, we have been on an active mission in our engineering group to stomp out spreadsheets. More often than not, we ended up with static information that was siloed which is only marginally made…

Without knowing more about your environment, it COULD just be that you need to re-index your system. I've found that often if Confluence isn't able to find <X> where X is almost anything, a full system re-index solves it.

First thing is that I had 5.7 some time ago and I noticed it was a bit pokey regardless. That said, I have my heap set to 2048MB and I also set Xss=8M (thread space). That last gave me a significant overall boost; nothing definitive... it just felt lighter and quick. There's a LOT going on in a Confluence server and thread…

Stefania, I do this very thing regularly to get a snapshot of my production system onto a development system and it works reliably every time even when moving from one database server to another. * Prep a target system, in your case a Win 2k8 server and DB of your choice. Install your target version of JIRA clean/empty on…

Aditya, What are you trying to achieve with MS Excel that you likely can't already with JIRA? In our shop we've had an ongoing campaign to STOMP OUT discrete and static documents. With well crafted views using widgets and various queries coupled with using Confluence to display JIRA along with other relevant data, we…

As Nic said, yes you can. That said, to keep it simple for the users, I've got all of them on separate servers so that I don't have to have any port specification or context in the URLs. Whenever I stand up a new server, I spend the time to weed OUT ports and context in URLs so users can have easy to remember destinations…

Akash, The tomcat datasource statements are in <conf-install>/conf/server.xml. The pool connections are in <conf-install><code>/confluence/WEB-INF/web.xml. This last, when I upgraded to 5.7 perhaps isn't necessary (had some problems that Atlassian helped me out with) as they were commenting that it really doesn't add much…

D'oh! I shoulda thought to look there but... I didn't. Thanks for the tip. Have made several people here very happy.

* If anyone comes up with an answer, I'd like to see it; we also have the problem. * A kludge (but it works even if annoying) is to use the code block macro for this purpose. Then the wiki markup imposition goes away

There is a setting in the Confluence General Configuration on the Admin pages that sets the max size for the attachment. The default is significantly less than that. I noticed the same that it would APPEAR to all get there and then fail. I suspect is buffering in a copy location in the DB and then stores once the…

Basically anywhere you can run Java you can run Confluence. I've had it on a variety of OS over the time I've run our instance here (currently Windows 2012 R2, 4vCPU and 6GB RAM with PostgreSQL - very very fast)

Thanks Bob. For the nonce, I had to get it the templates out the door and the JIRA queries are manually built by the person implementing the template. However, I've structured how the dashboards work so that they can be just killed and reapplied to the various projects when a new version is developed so I'll keep working…

Fred, I went through exactly the same thing you did and had the same needs/concerns you have. Exactly. I suspect the kind of thing you're seeing and would like to correct (among other things) is what might be at the top of a confluence space/page like "Created by unknown user and updated by <newusername>" (paraphrasing…

Sam, While it perhaps might be possible to cobble something together without add-ons, the fun of working through getting RID of "no add-ons" stuff from predecessors is showing me the beauty of plugins in this environment. If you build something and make it work, you become responsible for KEEPING it working through API…

Good call. I'll dig into that. Thanks Nic. As always, greatly appreciated

After a few more like that, I did just that.... and the one query that kept missing them... all of a sudden had 4 more in the list. The workflow for that project was before me and it is overly complex and fragile. On my list of "things to fix". That is... assuming of course, that a flaky workflow and linking plugin could…

Andre,I've created the ticket on support as CSP-143993

Rex, The short answer is... yes. The rather longer answer is you need to do some stuff before you get there. You'll want to start with the upgrade guide and find out what stops you need to make along the way for your upgrade. Once you know your stops along the path to the latest and greatest, I highly recommend you also…