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user1147862
user1147862

Reputation: 4226

Tool to migrate all pages from Confluence to Umbraco

My company currently has a lot of pages in Confluence (cloud version). Nothing complicated - organized in spaces, many pages have sub pages, some pages have images.

We're now looking at moving our pages to an Umbraco CMS, hosted on our own servers.

Are there tools that will copy the pages in our Confluence account to an Umbraco instance?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 164

Answers (2)

amelvin
amelvin

Reputation: 9051

HOW TO TRANSFER CONFLUENCE TO UMBRACO

As Umbraco is essentially free, there would be no external cost to setting up a trial. Take one space & export it into XML from there you can derive a document type structure that would support the space, something like:

  • space
    • pages
      • blog pages (inheriting from page)
      • retrospective pages (inheriting from page)
      • other standard confluence page types ...
    • assets

When you have a document type structure you could use CMSImport (https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/cmsimport/) to create pages that map to the confluence page types & going forward you can continue to create the same types of pages as you did in Confluence.

After that its a case of developing the template designs to show the pages.

WHY YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T TRANSFER CONFLUENCE TO UMBRACO

That said I've used Umbraco for years as well as Confluence & I'm not sure that they are sufficiently similar to migrate between. I'd say Confluence is more similar to a document store/wiki/blogging system than Umbraco which is an extensible web content management system.

The guy who runs Umbraco, Niels Hartvig, has said a few times over the years that if you are building a blog then Umbraco is probably the wrong option (eg https://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/5226-Which-blog-platform-do-you-use#comment-19128) & I would say by extension that building a document store/wiki/blogging system is not playing to Umbraco's strengths.

Basecamp, some kind of wiki platform, slack etc - there are dozens of options in this space that would probably do the job without an ongoing maintenance cost that would probably result from the Umbraco option.

Upvotes: 0

Eyescream
Eyescream

Reputation: 911

I don't think there's a tool specifically for that, but there's a tool for the import of content called CMSImport

https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/cmsimport/

Upvotes: 1

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