Posts in 2024
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 …
Migrating Gliffy and draw.io macros to SharePoint Online
Friday, July 19, 2024 in News
We first look at how Gliffy and draw.io work in Confluence, then we look at a migration result. How are the diagrams stored in Confluence? This is a sample Confluence page (in edit mode) containing both the Gliffy and draw.io macro: Both macros …
Transforming even more colors from Confluence to SharePoint!
Thursday, July 18, 2024 in News
The latest release of WikiTraccs contains multiple improvements with regard to colors. Text colors, the newly introduced text highlight colors (Confluence Cloud) and table cell colors got some attention. Note SharePoint does not support all colors …
How to run parallel WikiTraccs migrations?
Thursday, June 06, 2024 in News
You can run multiple WikiTraccs instances in parallel to speed up the overall migration. You’ll need a separate machine or VM per WikiTraccs instance as only one instance is allowed to run on the same machine. Some definitions The computer or …
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 …