Posts in 2023
Fixing image positioning in SharePoint
Sunday, October 29, 2023 in News
Note Read Broken inline image positioning in SharePoint to learn the background story of this post. Note Images that are part of a list are still broken when editing a page, even when applying the Page Companion Fix described in this post. Another …
Broken inline image positioning in SharePoint
Saturday, October 07, 2023 in News
Update October 22, 2023 Microsoft Support confirms that the behavior described on this page is expected. No adjacent images anymore. Update October 29, 2023 Read the follow-up: Fixing image positioning in SharePoint In general, SharePoint is behind …
How to migrate rich Confluence tables to limited SharePoint tables?
Monday, July 03, 2023 in News
What are different table capabilities of Confluence and SharePoint? The following table formatting options are available in Confluence: setting the background color for table cells having multiple header rows or columns nesting tables merging table …
Migrating large Confluence spaces to SharePoint
Sunday, July 02, 2023 in News
How does WikiTraccs determine which pages to migrate for a space? When WikiTraccs starts to migrate a space to SharePoint it retrieves the full list of pages for this space. Say a space contains 20000 pages. WikiTraccs retrieves basic information …
Ignoring macros when migrating pages from Confluence to SharePoint
Friday, May 19, 2023 in News
Note The Macro Filter is available as of WikiTraccs v1.2.0. Why do I need a macro ignore list? Certain Confluence macros are only visible when editing a wiki page. Often WikiTraccs can see those macros and migrates them to the SharePoint page - …
Registering WikiTraccs as app in Azure AD
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in News
I recently got the following inquiry about WikiTraccs: Please explain again briefly what the Tenant ID and Azure Client IDs are and how to acquire them. This request is not the first of its kind and totally understandable. It refers to the following …
The art of positioning images - part 2 of 2
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in News
Update October 22, 2023: Microsoft broke it Mid-2023 Microsoft started upgrading the editor behind the text web part and broke adjacent images in the process. Read more here: Broken inline image positioning in SharePoint. This blog post is the …
The art of positioning images - part 1 of 2
Sunday, March 12, 2023 in News
This blog post is the first of a two-parter about images in the context of a Confluence to SharePoint migration: Part One: Why is image positioning important and which options do I have in Confluence and SharePoint? (this post) Part Two: What do …
Confluence Page Tree in SharePoint
Sunday, March 05, 2023 in News
How to create a dynamic page tree in SharePoint? That is a question I hear time and time again. Pages in SharePoint have no hierarchy (in contrast to Confluence). All modern pages are basically stored at the same level in the Site Pages Library. Ever …
What about those Confluence Macros?
Sunday, February 26, 2023 in News
Let’s start with something that has different meanings depending on context. Content Page content for space owners might encompass everything on and around a Confluence page: text, macros, attachments, metadata and maybe also comments and …