Page tree in the sidebar has dissapeared

[Björn Bergqvist]

In our spaces that used to have page tree view in the sidebard to the left, those has dissapeared. I have searched the forum and tried the suggestions with enabling plugins etc, but none of those suggestions match. We use confluence 4.3.2 and I have the Documenation theme on these spaces, and I have the page tree settings ticked under customize settings. There is also childpages connected to the space so this shouldnt be the problem.

Adding the macro page tree works, but this puts the page tree on the pages, not in the sidebar as we want.

I would appreciate any help to solve this issue

[Björn Bergqvist · Accepted solution]

The problem was solved by enabling the Velocity helper plugin within the Documentation theme

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Browser+Title+Shows+$docThemeHelper+Instead+of+The+Page+Title

I wish to thank everyone that tried to help out by offering solutions, and if I somehow missed if someone pointed this out earlier in the thread I appologize alot :)

Cheers to all of you for quickness and commitment to help!

Cheers

B

[GuilhermeA]

Hello Björn,

I have read through this answer and a point missing is a Full Reindex From Scratch.

• http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch

Hope this helps you.

Cheers,

Guilherme

[Björn Bergqvist]

Hi Guilherme

I have tried to rebuild the index, but it does not help either :(

[GuilhermeA]

Maybe we can try some of those?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/label/CONFKB/pagetree

Any of them could relate to this :D

[Björn Bergqvist]

Hi, unfortunately none of these worked either. However, my colleague found something that helped https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Browser+Title+Shows+$docThemeHelper+Instead+of+The+Page+Title it seemed to be the Velocity helper plugin that was disabled in the Documentation theme. When we checked 11/12 were enabled and the Velocity thing was not

[AlysonA]

Hello Bjorn,

From my understanding of it, I believe you need to Rebuild the Ancestor table to get the sidebar showing content again. Not sure if you tried that already, if not can you please give it a try and let us know the results?

Cheers.

[Björn Bergqvist]

Hi Alyson

I have now tried to rebuild the ancestor table with the button, but unfortunately it does not help, I still have empty side bars.

Any other clue?

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Björn,

did you check the little switch on the left side of the search field on the top of the window ?

Cheers

Thomas

[Björn Bergqvist]

Hi Thomas

I have, if I flip it more ill brake it :) The side bar is there, but its empty, no content at all.

Cheers for the check though

B

[Thomas Schlegel]

ah, ok, you did not mention that the empty side bar is there. Are there any error messages in the log file ?

[Björn Bergqvist]

We have checked the logs, and there is no errors in the log file when I access those spaces

[Thomas Schlegel]

hmm, fighting with the links, sorry ;-)

Do you have a "Home" page in the space

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Documentation+Theme+Fails+to+Display+the+Navigation+Bar+in+Some+Spaces

Is this in every space or just in some spaces ? Every Client or some clients ?

Did you change anything before ?

What happens if you deselect the page tree check box and enter the page tree macro in the navigation text box ? (Look at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme#ConfiguringtheDocumentationTheme-CustomisingtheDocumentationTheme

[Björn Bergqvist]

Yes, I have a homepage (the link you provided is unknown btw)

It applies to the 2 spaces we have with this, so yes, its for all.

I have tried to add the pagetree to the navigation, by entering this:

{pagetree:root=bjobertest home|searchBox=true}

and also deselected the page tree box, but still no change, I get no page tree.

(bjobertest home is the name of my test space for this (one of the 2 spaces that this concerns))

Any clue? Seems like we have a real issue here, might be needed to file a bug?

[Thomas Schlegel]

Do you have a "Home" page in the space

Look at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Documentation+Theme+Fails+to+Display+the+Navigation+Bar+in+Some+Spaces

Is this in every space or just in some spaces ? Every Client or some clients ?

Did you change anything before ?

What happens if you deselect the page tree check box and enter the page tree macro in the navigation text box ?

Look at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme#ConfiguringtheDocumentationTheme-CustomisingtheDocumentationTheme

[Thomas Schlegel]

going nuts... 100 attempts to add a simple link... maybe this time...

Do you have a "Home" page in the space ?

Look at this page

Is this in every space or just in some spaces ? Every Client or some clients ? Did you change anything before ?

What happens if you deselect the page tree check box and enter the page tree macro in the navigation text box as described here

[Björn Bergqvist]

These links work better, but still same result. I will check alysons suggestion and see if that might helps