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I am planning a potential move from Server to Cloud for... reasons... I've done the analysis on what plugins and the like are/aren't supported and what my workarounds might be for the ones that aren't. Mostly it involves dumping the system and grepping the giant XML file for the App key to find the WFs they are in and…

In my company we have discrete organizations with discrete Confluence instances. I'd like to create the kind of integration between the discrete Confluence instances that we enjoy between Confluence and JIRA. I can see lots of documentation to integrate Confluence and JIRA but nothing for two Confluence federated with each…

Has anyone had a request for getting a notification when project permission changes? I have a rather pointed need from one of our teams to know, real-time, if project permissions change on their project. Any ideas?

I have a Github connection on my Jira instance and it's writing an INFO entry in the logs every time there is a commit (and there are a lot of them). Does anyone know which of the default loggers is used for that connection? I'd like to turn it back to at least WARN to stop filling my logs

I have an issue that still appears in the kanban backlog as a subtask under a task. However, when trying to select it, I get an error saying the issue doesn't exist. Using all manners of trying to display it outside the kanban board seems to indicate that, in fact, it does not exist. At issue is the LAST one in the list in…

Is there a way to add syntax highlighting to Jira like one can add new brushes to Confluence? Most of the answers I see are quite old OR point to the Prism highlighter (which seems a bit user hostile). Anyone have ideas? I'd like to be able to add a brush in the same manner.

I've been trying to use the JMWE email issue post function. The idea is that should one reply to the email that comes out of that, it would go back into JIRA and comment the issue it came from. However, it appears that the "reply to" is set at the user that did the transition (or what is set in the hard code field). The…

I had asked this question some years ago and thought I would refresh it just in case someone came up with a cool solution/plugin. I had one (a date bound situation) and now another where I'd like a query to display Jira issues in Confluence are based on values found as meta-data (or something else) on the calling…

As I was working through migrating away from a no-longer supported post function in my Jira instance to another, I was struck by something: Two PFs that do essentially the same thing in the same way but the syntax of how access to Jira issue fields was markedly different - different enough that they felt like different…

I was prepping to upgrade my Confluence 6.8.2 instance to 6.9.1 and had an uneventful upgrade on my test instance. When I was getting to the point of pushing to production, I did the usual check to see if, just perhaps, there was a 6.9.2. Instead, what I found is that 6.9.1 is no longer on the list. There is a link to…

I have been trying, to no avail, to add Swift to the list of languages in Confluence. I've looked for all variants I can FIND for the brush but none seem to "take" (Confluence 6.8.2) Has anyone had success in recent times adding a brush to the code macro and, if so, what changes to default js files did they need to make?…

I am trying to add a field to the Child Issues List when in the parent detail view. I know how to add it to subtasks (and the field, priority, DOES display correctly there) but I can't seem to find how to add it to the Child Issues list. Any clues where I might configure that field list in the table of Child Issues?

I currently have a fast and reliable method of creating a test instance of Jira and Confluence from the daily backups. HOWEVER, I'd like to be able to make some changes to the test instances AFTER restore to test environment but BEFORE I start them so there is no "confusion" as it were. I suspect these are things I could…

Our IT team created a new Bitbucket cloud repo and added me with, what seems to be full rights to it. However, when visiting the team URL, I get the dreaded message: You were never here This user has requested we keep their identity a mystery. Let's never speak of this again. Any ideas how to fix this?

I have a case where I need to hide the "Create" button in just ONE project. Using script fragments, I was able to hide the clone and move menu items without fail BUT when I try the same thing with the "Create" button, JIRA constantly throws the following in the log file. It WORKS the error shows every couple of seconds…

I'll start with, even with the oddness I can't yet explain, I love this plugin. What I need to know are the following things: * I used the "breadcrumb-navigation-bar" macro on one of my pages (thinking it would only appear on those pages). It didn't. It now appears only on my sessions on every page I go to. I like it but…

I just had an odd occurrence on our JIRA 6.4.13 instance. I was asked why there was an issue that no JQL query would find so I had a look at it. The search scenario that did not find it: * Project * Assignee * Resolution I opened the issue that we knew was there and quickly did a JQL query that should definitively find it…

I currently have a less than satisfactory implementation of tables in JIRA and the e7 one looks like it might be the ticket. Does anyone know if historical data can be imported into the tables? https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.e7solutions.jira.plugins.tables/server/overview

I have an issue where we have been (forever) in the IT department migrating from one AD to another with different usernames inside them (one has human names, the other has... barcode numbers for lack of a better description). Both have been active for some time as some services are available to one AD and some to another…

I followed the instructions on the Fisheye documentation pages to set JAVA_OPTS in the system environment variable FISHEYE_OPTS. I validated with a fresh command prompt that the variable is set system wide. However, when I start Fisheye and look at the System Information on the Admin pages, I see no sign that the Java opts…

I currently have Confluence, JIRA, Crowd, and Bamboo configured to use the PKCS12 for SSL directly. I am trying to find out if I can do the same with Fisheye. All I can see are the common commands to generate the various certificate types typically used by Java that are in the other configuration documents. In interest of…

I use JIRA macros in my Confluence project status pages to show current status of projects. Is there a way to show the rolled up estimates in an Epic in a JIRA macro query? I've tried all the fields the macro seems to present but I can't find one that shows the value I see when I am on the JIRA Agile board

I am having an issue where (new behavior) scroll bars appear both horizontally AND vertically on tables in IE. The same page in Chrome does NOT exhibit this behavior (preferred and the way it was). Any ideas anyone? Confluence page - Chrome.jpg Confluence page - IE.jpg

I currently use the JIRA popup bubble that appears with selected Confluence text to create JIRA issues all the time. The uber cool thing about this is the automatic bi-directional link between the Confluence page (showing the JIRA issue key) and the link in the JIRA issue that will take you right to that spot. What…

Using the Confluence macro metadata 2, I would like to set a handful of pieces of metadata for a page (project number, JIRA key for example) and have those passed to variables in (Bob Swift) SQL queries In my trial I set a hidden metadata value with the key "projectcode", In wiki markup:…

I installed it. After I realized it was only good up to 5.4.4 (as documented) and it showed "incompatible" I removed it. Does it work on 5.5 without harm?