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Importing Content Into Confluence

Added by David Soul [Atlassian], last edited by Kevin Williams [atlassian] on Aug 19, 2008  (view change)
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Confluence stores all page data in Confluence's wiki markup syntax.

Importing Wiki Content

For other instances of Confluence:

  • If the versions are the same, export the space from the originating instance and import into Confluence.
  • If the versions are different, you can use an intermediate server to migrate versions.

This is ideal because page history, attachments, and wiki markup will be preserved and you'll be able to do multiple pages at once. The drawbacks are that it may be inconvenient if the versions differ and you must not have a duplicate space key on the destination instance (you cannot import a space that already exists, and this is defined by the space key).

For other wikis:

Importing Non-wiki Content

Importing non-wiki markup into Confluence requires a conversion process.

  • Text with basic formatting can be pasted directly into the Rich Text Editor. This includes simple Word documents or web pages.
  • Files such as Microsoft Word and Excel documents can be imported using a Content Converter
  • Confluence pages saved to disk can be Imported From Disk

For web content:

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Comments (4)

 

  1. Dec 05, 2007

    Hamilton Pridgen says:

    Hi, Is there a way to import / retrieve a backed up space? Essentially we have a...

    Hi,

    Is there a way to import / retrieve a backed up space? Essentially we have a QA space that we want to move to prod and while there's export functionality we don't see an import button. Thanks!

    1. Dec 05, 2007

      Liam Jones says:

      You reimport through the admin console backup/restore section for both space bac...

      You re-import through the admin console backup/restore section for both space backups and site backups.

  2. Jul 07

    Anonymous says:

    Hey, I was just curious to know if there is a plan to include importing nonwiki...

    Hey,

    I was just curious to know if there is a plan to include importing non-wiki content (e.g. .xls, .pdf, .doc) as an out of the box function of enterprise wiki.

    1. Jul 08

      Azwandi Mohd Aris says:

      Hi there, As far as I am concerned, there is an ongoing feature request at CONF...

      Hi there,

      As far as I am concerned, there is an ongoing feature request at CONF-928 to import Word documents into Confluence. There is also a feature request to allow PDF files to be displayed in Confluence.

      Meanwhile, please take a look at how the new features and improvements are being implemented in the future versions of Confluence:

      Cheers,
      Azwandi

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