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Welcome to the Confluence wiki at Cornell University. It combines powerful online authoring capabilities, deep Office integration and an extensive plugin catalog to help people work better together and share information effortlessly.

Getting Started

• Setting up your personal space
• Request a Confluence space for storing content other than a personal space
• Request a Confluence account for a collaborator without a Cornell NetID
• All tab, list of all spaces
• Request a group
• Request assistance or report a problem
• Contact Confluence Administrators

News

Inline files not displaying

After stopping and restarting Confluence on Tuesday, March 31st at 9 pm and clearing the application caches, most but not all examples of this problem resolved.

We have received a confirmed report that since Sunday's update, inline files (PDF, Microsoft Office files) are not displaying with an error "There was a problem converting this attachment. Please create an issue at http://jira.atlassian.com".   It is the viewfile macro which provides this functionality.  As a work-around, you can use the new Files option to insert the same file as described in these instructions, https://confluence.cornell.edu/x/ioR4Eg.  We are seeking assistance from Atlassian, the maker of Confluence to solve this issue.

FIXED: Some pages do not display showing a "System Error"

We have received a confirmed report that some Confluence pages are not displaying, giving an error "Oops - an error has occurred. System Error". The further details of the error under the heading "Cause" mention "java.lang.RuntimeException: Error rendering template for decorator root". Until we have solved this problem, please look at the copy of your content, last updated in late February, on the Confluence test system by replacing "confluence.cornell.edu" in the web page address with "confluence-test.cit.cornell.edu".

FIXED: Copying a page results in a system error

We have received two confirmed reports this week that copying a Confluence page results in a long system error. We are seeking assistance from Atlassian, the maker of Confluence, for this issue. Meanwhile, if you would like to copy a Confluence page: edit the original page, create a new Confluence page in another browser tab/window, and copy and paste the contents of the original page to make a copy.

Change to appearance of dashboard

On March 22nd at 7 am, we turned off the ThemeBuilder add-on.  Add-ons to Confluence are extra pieces of code which provide features beyond those available from Atlassian, the maker of the Confluence wiki.  Add-ons may result in additional annual charges and in some cases are difficult to support.  The presence of ThemeBuilder caused a six-month delay in our ability to upgrade to Confluence 5 and more recently lead to a month-long licensing error in the footer of most pages.  Since use of this add-on dropped off dramatically after the Confluence upgrade in January, we have taken this opportunity to retire the ThemeBuilder add-on.  As a substitute, space administrators can now adjust the look and feel of their spaces using stylesheets instead.   This page, the dashboard, had been using the ThemeBuilder add-on to include the graphics of Ezra Cornell and the clock tower at the top of the page.  Since March 22nd, the pictures are no longer present.

Not finding a Confluence account when adding permissions?

Confluence accounts are created at the time a netID holder logs in for the first time.  If you see the error "User netID could not be found.  Please confirm his or her existence with a Confluence Administrator" then please ask the user to log in to Confluence once to establish an account.  After the first log in, you will then be able to add the netID to Confluence space permissions.

Confluence account clean up

We are starting a process to deactivate Confluence accounts belonging to graduated students and staff and faculty who have left the university. This process is reversible and does not remove pages or other content added by these users. Please let us know by writing to confluence at cornell.edu if there are any questions or concerns about this process.

Confluence has been Upgraded to 8.5.5 2/9/2024 (Datacenter)

Revisions:

Confluence Upgraded to 7.19.18 on 1/16/2024 (due to an open CVE)

Confluence Upgraded to 7.19.17 on 12/6/2023 (due to an open CVE)

Confluence Upgraded to 7.19.16 on 11/1/2023 (due to an open CVE)

Confluence Upgraded to 7.19.14 on 9/30/2023 (due to an open CVE)

Confluence Upgraded to 7.19.9 on 7/15/2023

Confluence Upgraded to 7.19.4 on 1/14/2023 (due to an open CVE)

Confluence Upgraded to 7.13.7 on 6/6/2022 (due to an open CVE)

Confluence Upgraded to 7.13.2 on 1/14/2022

Confluence Upgraded to 7.4.6 on 1/10/2021

Confluence Migration to hosted vendor completed on 1/10/2021.  

Confluence account clean up has been completed on 6/21/2020

Confluence accounts and spaces belonging to graduated students and staff and faculty who have left the university have been removed.  Please let us know by writing to confluence at cornell.edu if there are any questions or concerns about this process.

Archiving Inactive Spaces

Over the years, the amount of content in Confluence has grown so that there are more than 1,700 spaces.  Atlassian, the makers of Confluence, tell us that we have a very large Confluence instance.  A number of these spaces are inactive, and the content has not been updated for many years sometimes because the original creators and maintainers of the spaces have left the university.   In order to keep Confluence running well for the users of actively maintained spaces, we are archiving a number of these inactive spaces.  You can see a list under Spaces > Space directory > Archived category.    The content remains in place, accessible and editable although it will not appear in search results unless you check the "Search archived spaces" checkbox.

Change spaces from "Documentation" to "Global Look and Feel" theme

Atlassian, the makers of the Confluence wiki, have been announcing for some time that they intend to retire the "Documentation" theme which controls the way some spaces appear. This theme will be replaced by the "Global Look and Feel" theme at the time when we upgrade to version 6.6 of Confluence. Confluence 6.6 is now available and we are planning an upgrade.  If your space uses the "Documentation" theme, we encourage you to change the theme now at your leisure in advance of the forced change. We are now in the process of changing any remaining spaces which you have not changed.  A space uses the "Documentation" theme if there is a "Browse" option in the top menu. More details.