Tips for Confluence Administrators: Part 2

In Tips for Confluence Administrators: Part 1 We talked about some cases of custom configuration of Confluence, such as

  • How to disable attachment downloads?
  • How to put an iFrame into Confluence?
  • How do I make my page completely private?
  • How to prevent a Space Administrator from deleting their Space?

Any software has bugs, and Confluence is no exception.

It will be embarrassing if users come to you for help with some bug and you say you don't know anything about them. As a system administrator, you need to know these existing bugs in advance and take some countermeasures.

The content below is all from the community, I just indexed them. They have a specific version attribution, I am using 7.13.2.

 

  • Restore same name pages from trash should not overwrite the existing page but add a history version
  • As a user I want Saved for later page/tab in Confluence to have the same sorting mechanism

  • Copy/paste table cells does not work as expected when header cells are merged
  • Confluence allows Page to be renamed to a title that has already existed(and restricted)
  • Limited number of users with the same name appeared in the page restriction search
  • Can't Copy Table Header
  • Duplicated content in pages after running Synchrony Hard Data Removal
  • Nested table cannot be resized
  • Support for assigning a task to multiple users

     

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Restore same name pages from trash should not overwrite the existing page but add a history version

I tried to restore a same name page from trash and I saw two options like

  • Overwrite the existing Page
  • Restore this Page with a new title

I think these two options are good but not good enough. because how about if you want to keep track the change record with one page? So I wish to know weather it is possible to change [Overwrite the existing Page] to [Add a new version to the existing Page ]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-32117

 


As a user I want Saved for later page/tab in Confluence to have the same sorting mechanism

The one on Confluence Dashboard is being sorted based on the date and time where the page is added to the Saved for later list (starred); newest to oldest.
Whilst, the one on the User's Profile page is being sorted based on the pages' pageID (contentid value in the CONTENT table).

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-73805

 


Copy/paste table cells does not work as expected when header cells are merged

Copy/paste table cells does not work as expected when header cells are merged, enclosed is a video demonstrating the behaviour.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-66275

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58765

 


Confluence allows Page to be renamed to a title that has already existed(and restricted)

Confluence allows Parent Page to be renamed to a title that has already existed(and restricted)

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-75905

 


Limited number of users with the same name appeared in the page restriction search

Only 6 of user return in the search result of page restriction but none of them is the intended user. Not able to add the intended user to page restriction.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54278

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-41705

 


Can't Copy Table Header

Users are unable to copy the content of the table headers in Confluence pages. This happens in Google Chrome as well as Firefox.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-56411

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Header-of-table-cannot-be-copied-server/qaq-p/1609035

 


Duplicated content in pages after running Synchrony Hard Data Removal

When editing a page, the page content, or a subset of the page content is duplicated. This behaviour occurs intermittently without any special actions by the user.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59993

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59227

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Confluence-Server-and-Data-Center-Content-duplication-fix-and/m-p/1873941#M9241

 


Nested table cannot be resized

Inner table cannot be resized when it is nested in another table

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54630

 


Support for assigning a task to multiple users

You can add multiple @mentions to a task in a task list, but the second person does not get a notification in their workbox, and does not see this task in their task list.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-26786

 


Btw, please watch these bugs and don't begrudge your votes, it helps raise Atlassian's priority to fix them.

 


Tips for Confluence Administrators: Part 1 

  • How to disable attachment downloads
  • How to hide elements in Confluence using CSS or JavaScript
  • How to skip the onboarding page (welcome.action) for new users in Confluence
  • confluence.collab.edit.user.limit
  • How to put an iFrame into Confluence
  • Finding Unused Spaces or Pages
  • How do I make my page completely private?
  • How to prevent a Space Administrator from delete their Space?

Tips for Confluence Administrators: Part 3 

  • Global Find and replace

  • Link Report/Link Validator
  • Record permission changes in page history
  • Page edit permissions should be inherited by pages, like view permissions are
  • Text statistics like word count, character count, etc.
  • Provide ability to override Lucene tokenisation and stemming and search for exact text (literal search)
  • Allow admins to change Lucene's stop words
  • Disabling the ability to view the "Page History" on a space
  • Support for vertical alignment of table cell contents
  • Reverse ordering of comment lists

Tips for Confluence Administrators: Part 4

  • How to identify inactive users in Confluence
  • Not able to copy comments in Confluence
  • Make Confluence Space Permissions page read-only
  • Disable the display Creator, Last update And who updated
  • Restrict creating pages in the home page of a space
  • Enforce Password Complexity in Confluence
  • HTML macros are disabled by default
  • Redirect Confluence users to a new URL
  • Get a list of active users counting towards the Confluence license
  • Get the number users and groups in Confluence Server and Data Center
  • Hide Move and Copy menu for pages

 

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