Getting Started

STEP ONE: Download WikiTraccs

Click to open the WikiTraccs download page: DOWNLOAD page.

Download the zip file.

Extract the zip file - it contains two folders WikiTraccs.Console and WikiTraccs.GUI.

In the WikiTraccs.GUI folder run WikiTraccs.GUI.exe.

A blue-ish window opens. We’ll call this just WikiTraccs for the remainder of this page, instead of WikiTraccs.GUI.

Congratulations, you downloaded and started WikiTraccs.

Proceed with the next step.

STEP TWO: Configure WikiTraccs and test connections

The window you opened in the previous step should look like this:

WikiTraccs main view

You will now use this view to configure everything for a first migration.

Select the Confluence base address input field and enter the base address of Confluence. This is the source system whose content will be migrated to SharePoint Online.

Under Confluence authentication type select the authentication type to use. Choose Anonymous to have WikiTraccs access Confluence as anonymous user. Choose Interactive login instead to open a browser window for logging in when starting the migration.

Select the WikiTraccs site input field and enter a SharePoint site address. Now is a good time to create this site.

Select the Try auto-detect from site button to detect the tenant ID. If this doesn’t work enter the tenant ID manually into the Tenant ID input field.

Select the Azure AD Application Client ID input field and enter the ID of the Azure AD application that WikiTraccs should use to access SharePoint.

Under SharePoint authentication type select the authentication type to use. Choose Interactive (MFA supported).

Proceed with the next step.

STEP TWO AND A HALF: Validate the configuration

Validating the Confluence connection settings

Choose the Test Confluence connection button to test the Confluence connection.

WikiTraccs will open a browser window and automatically navigate to the Confluence base address you entered in step 1. Log in, if you chose Interactive Login as Authentication type in step 1.

Wait for the browser window to close. This is important. It has to close by itself.

A message box in the blue WikiTraccs.GUI window will open and tell whether the test succeeded or not.

Validating the SharePoint connection settings

Choose the Test SharePoint connection button to test the SharePoint connection.

WikiTraccs will show the default Microsoft 365 login experience in any open browser window it finds, or open a new browser window. Select this browser window and log in. A green bar should appear, saying Authentication complete.

Now select the blue WikiTraccs.GUI window again, bringing it back to the front.

A message box will open and tell whether the test succeeded or not.

When both of those tests where successful, select the Prepare WikiTraccs site and update space inventory button. You might have to log in again.

If successful, a message box will open and show you the number of Confluence spaces that were found.

Proceed with the next step.

STEP THREE: Start the migration

First, you need to select the Confluence spaces to migrate.

Choose the Open space inventory to choose source spaces button.

A browser window opens, showing the space inventory SharePoint list. It contains information about all spaces that were found in Confluence. WikiTraccs filled this list when you selected the Prepare WikiTraccs site and update space inventory button in the previous step.

For each element in the space inventory list, choose the RequestTransformation option to include this space in the migration:

Include a Confluence space in the migration.

When you are finished, return to the WikiTraccs window.

Select the Target site input field and enter the address of the target SharePoint site. This site will be the new home for migrated pages. Now is a good point to create this site.

Select the Start transformation button to start the migration.

A new window opens - WikiTraccs.Console - and the migration begins.

Congratulations. Your first migration is running.

Look at the Site Pages library of your target SharePoint site. After a minute or so new pages should appear. Those are the transformed Confluence pages.