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WikiTraccs 1.24.20

By Heinrich Ulbricht |
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Page Formatting and Styling Upgrade

This release brings rather large improvements to page formatting and styling (note: opt-in, has to be activated).

WikiTraccs can now create pages in a newer SharePoint page format that provides more styling capabilities.

Learn how to opt-in and more in the blog: Harnessing the New SharePoint Page Format

Immediate advantages of the new page format:

  • new: migrating exact text colors from Confluence to SharePoint
  • improved: using one of the new citation styles that looks more appealing (left-aligned text with a left-side bar instead of italics and centered)
  • improved: better paragraph margins

Other Improvements

Confluence On-Premises & Cloud

  • new: transform draw.IO Board/Sketch macro
  • new: Roadmap macro transformation to proper image
  • new: enabling non-standard table transformations by default, since merged columns and table cell colors just look too good to miss out on them
  • new: migrating status metadata for pages; status can be “current” or “archived”
  • improved: beautified info/warning/note/tip macro transformation, leveraging table cell background colors
  • improved: table transformation (better column width calculation)
  • improved: adding additional hard link formats
  • improved: whitespace cleanup; now leaving more gaps between paragraphs where this might’ve been intentional
  • fix: handling of attachments which only differ in ß and ss since SharePoint treats those as equivalent
  • fix: image title not set after transformation in Confluence 8
  • fix: for some Confluence instances, comments migration failed with 500 server error; a workaround has been implemented
  • fix: content selector preference issue when using a combination of content ID and space selectors, when a page is covered by both; content ID selector will now take precedence

Confluence Cloud

  • new: added a setting to switch off migration of archived pages

Prerelease-Specific Evolution

v1.24.4 → v1.24.5

  • improved: normalization of more “empty paragraph” variants which carry over from Confluence and often cause larger gaps in the page
  • fix: code macro embedded in single table cell with no other text can be missing in pages of new page format (note: detected by page KPI “Text Transferred Percent” being below 100%)

v1.24.5 → v1.24.7

  • fix: “Text Transferred Percent” KPI sometimes miscalculates the title characters of images, Gliffy, and draw.io diagrams
  • fix: wrong image size for draw.io diagrams when the image size has decimal places (like 400.5) and the local system uses , as decimal character

v1.24.7 → v1.24.9

  • fix: content of multiexcerpt macro not migrating when it contains only plain text (note: detected by page KPI “Text Transferred Percent” being below 100%)
  • fix: rare case of image being missing on page when it is the only content in a page section (note: detected by page KPI “All Images Transferred” being false)

v1.24.9 → v1.24.10

  • fix (Cloud): whiteboard image can be missing with new page format
  • fix (Cloud): Page Tree macro transformation did not resolve links to non-page content types

v1.24.10 → v1.24.12

  • improved: transformation of Include Shared Block macros
    • page links and image referenes in included shared blocks are updated to still point to their valid location
    • including shared blocks without specifying a key now works, as long as the source page only contains one shared block

v1.24.12 → v1.24.17

  • new: adding text background color conversion for new page format
  • improved: handling of broken HTML tables
  • improved: additional emoji transformations (flag, red minus)
  • fix: in the new page format, inline images that are followed by empty paragraph might be missing (note: detected by page KPI “All Images Transferred” being false)

v1.24.17 → v1.24.18

  • new: adding PlantUML macro transformations (plantuml, flowchart, spacegraph, linkgraph, database-structure, database-info)

v1.24.18 → v1.24.20 (available as of 2025-02-25)

  • new: additional PlantUML macro transformations (plantumlrender, flowchartrender)
  • improved: table of contents transformation now handles numbered TOC entries when matching with unnumbered headings
  • fix: some character count edge cases
  • fix: extended user info lookup could fail on Confluence 9 blocking page migration

Why so many iterations? The new page format is a rather big change, that’s why WikiTraccs is test-migrating content every day to discover lurking issues. Those are addressed along the way, while adding new transformations as well.