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Ishikawa Yoshi
Ishikawa Yoshi

Reputation: 1779

Invalid links after migrating from Confluence 3.5 to Confluence 4.2.3

We are editing lots of pages with text in Confluence version 3.5 but in one good day, we decide to upgrade our system to version 4.3.2. As a result, now, we have big problems with data.

All links in projects start being invalid and markup of text-fields changed, I think it connected with major changes in Confluence.

So now I trying to find way how to update this data and return nice view. Is there any plugins? Or scripts? Or any default features of Confluence to doing this work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1086

Answers (1)

jimmybondy
jimmybondy

Reputation: 2152

New Editor

The Wiki Markup editor has been removed in Confluence 4 and replaced with a new XHTML-based editor.

Confluence 4 introduced a Brand New Editor with macro placeholders and a macrobrowser.

By default you won't see wiki markup anymore in the edit mode, but placeholders. There is one wiki macro called Wiki-Markup which u can use to enter wiki markup.

And for users who are very familiar with wiki markup there us an Autoformatting feature, which lets you type wiki markup into the editor and it will "auto-format" the text on the fly.

Have you read Planning for Confluence 4?

Also, please take a look at Migration from Wiki Markup to XHTML-Based Storage Format

Regarding your macros you may try

The most common reason for content to be in this state is that a non 4.0 compatible macro (or unknown macro) was found on the page.

There are two possible fixes for this situation -

  1. Install a 4.0 compatible version of the macro. See Plugin Development Upgrade FAQ for 4.0.
  2. Edit the page to no longer use the problematic macro.

So as stated i would suggest you look for compatible versions of the macros/plugins and force a re-migratition:

  • URL: /admin/force-upgrade.action
  • URL: /admin/unmigratedwikicontent.action

What do you mean by the links are invalid?

Upvotes: 5

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