Posts in 2024
WikiTraccs switches to Confluence Cloud v2 REST API
Sunday, November 17, 2024 in News
Note The information in this post is relevant for Confluence Cloud only. There are no changes for Confluence on-premises. Background Confluence Cloud so far provided programming interfaces (APIs) that allowed applications like WikiTraccs to treat it …
Migrated SharePoint Page Names Explained
Saturday, November 16, 2024 in News
SharePoint pages migrated by WikiTraccs all follow the same naming scheme. We’ll take a look at how those names look and why this scheme is applied. How WikiTraccs names migrated pages In contrast to Confluence, SharePoint pages are files and …
How to migrate only some pages?
Wednesday, November 06, 2024 in News
Note When talking about pages, this also means blog posts and the new cloud content types like whiteboards. A more common term would be content, but that does sound a bit generic and would also cover attachments. So let’s keep it at pages …
Confluence vs. SharePoint - Part 1: Overall structure
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in News
Note When talking about Confluence pages, blog posts are also meant, because they are basically pages with another name. When looking at the cloud there is more than pages and blog posts but let’s keep things simple by looking at what is at …
Confluence Link Types Explained
Thursday, October 24, 2024 in News
Migration tools like WikiTraccs needs to take care of Confluence links, because otherwise those are broken after a migration. WikiTraccs will translate links within Confluence to proper SharePoint links. This includes page links, space links, and …
Mapping user accounts from Confluence to SharePoint
Monday, October 14, 2024 in News
In this blog post we’ll create a Confluence page, look at author and editor, migrate the page, configure user mappings, look at the resulting SharePoint page, and update the page’s metadata - to demonstrate how to map users from …
Confluence Authentication Overview
Sunday, August 25, 2024 in News
When starting a Confluence to SharePoint migration with WikiTraccs, you need to authenticate with Confluence so that WikiTraccs can access content. You’ll need a Confluence user account for the migration You’ll need a Confluence user …
Confluence might misreport space contents
Thursday, August 22, 2024 in News
There is one specific issue that customers have now and then: not all pages of a space are being migrated. Some pages will be missing in SharePoint. Why is that? While there can be multiple reasons, one is Confluence itself misreporting the contents …
Can feature 'XYZ' be added to WikiTraccs?
Monday, August 19, 2024 in News
It depends. Adding XYZ to WikiTraccs vs. project-specific solutions The development of WikiTraccs is mostly driven by customer demand. That, and changes by Microsoft and Atlassian to their services. Every environment and migration project is …
Converting Gliffy and draw.io to SVG
Monday, July 22, 2024 in News
Motivation The motivation behind this blog post is a customer request: When migrating from Confluence to SharePoint, how to migrate Gliffy diagrams as SVG files? Unfortunately, WikiTraccs cannot do much in this regard. WikiTraccs migrates Confluence …