Any Users of Refined Theme Data Centre for Confluence who have migrated to the Cloud?

[gordon_rutherford_qvc_com]

My business is planning this move and wondered how any other similar users have dealt with what I consider to be the 'elephant in the room: which is that all page creation and editing must take place in native Confluence. We have many users who create and edit content in the 'unified' DC Refined experience currently but will have to deal with the parallel native Confluence view if we stay with Refined.

We love what Refined brings but this 'dual universe' for page creators will not work for my non technical page create/edit users.

I had previously via Scriptrunner DC put custom page creation macros on home pages or in the Refined Space layout as an elegant button which allowed the created page to nest under any page.

Scriptrunner has no equivalent in their current cloud offering of macros 'out of the box'.

Just looking for any other admin experience/thoughts on this.

Thanks

Gordon

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Hi @gordon_rutherford_qvc_com and welcome to the Community.

For the record, I'm not answering the Refined part of the question, a) never used the DC version, b) I work for a competitor :) 

What I am going to address is the editing experience between on prem and cloud Confluence.

In my previous gig, I built a company intranet in Confluence cloud. Gradually, more and more content was edited and added by non technical users. HR, Office Management, Marketing/Sales. A co-worker from HR even built a very capable landing page in the Company Hub (Confluence Cloud feature). Never did that before.

Editing and page management experience on Cloud is much easier, so I would not worry too much about adoption among less technically capable users.

Did you try to run a small workshop with a couple of those users to walk them through? That might help drive adoption further.

If you still have doubt, I would not hesitate to contact Refined. App vendors typically have migration paths and support, especially for features that cannot be replicated 1:1 on Cloud.

[gordon_rutherford_qvc_com]

Hi Kris thanks for your response. I don't have an issue with the routine of page creation/editing in native Confluence Cloud. However you need to see the clean look and feel that Refined Theme DC can bring to your site, which is possible in the Cloud but it's an entirely different separate 'site' - you have to go back to native Confluence to create or Edit a page. Your users have to understand this 'parallel' universe and navigation between them to create or edit a page, when previously it was all integrated. This is what I don't like. So my feeling at the moment is for a company like mine you simply work with native Confluence without Refined.