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Migrating Communardo and Comala Metadata

This blog post shows the current progress of metadata migration with regard to Comala Document Management and Communardo Metadata for Confluence.
By Heinrich Ulbricht |

WikiTraccs now migrates metadata from Comala Document Management (former Comala Workflows) and Communardo Metadata for Confluence.

Where to Find Migrated Metadata in SharePoint?

WikiTraccs migrates metadata as page labels. You can see them in SharePoint in the Site Pages library. Note that you might have to add the Confluence: Labels (WikiTraccs) column to the current Site Pages list view, to see the labels.

For Communardo Metadata for Confluence you’ll see labels like those, representing metadata that was attached to the Confluence page:

  • migration:[communardometadata.global.metadatafield.orgunit=Atlassian Solutions]
  • migration:[communardometadata.global.metadatafield.state=Finalized]
  • migration:[communardometadata.global.metadatafield.continue=No]
  • migration:[communardometadata.global.metadatafield.fiscalyear=2025/2026]
  • migration:[communardometadata.global.metadatafield.quarter=]

For Comala Document Management you’ll see those entries:

  • migration:[comala.workflowName=Review Workflow]
  • migration:[comala.state.name=Active]
  • migration:[comala.state.dueDate=1748516063000]

Those are the workflow name, the name of the current state, and the due date (in Comala-native format).

Labels that were added by WikiTraccs have the migration: prefix to separate them from regular page labels, which mostly have the global: prefix.

Technical Notes

Metadata migration is always enabled when starting a migration run.

When starting a migration run, WikiTraccs will check if programming endpoints from both Communardo and Comala plugins are available. If they are available, metadata will be retrieved for every page. If those endpoints are not available, WikiTraccs will disable metadata migration efforts for those plugins after some retries.

How to Use the Metadata in SharePoint?

Since metadata from the Comala and Communardo plugins ends up in plain text format in a text column in SharePoint, you’ll probably need post processing to do something meaningful with that data.

I recommend using PnP PowerShell to read the labels, transform them to a format that’s useful to you, and store them at a place that makes sense in your context.