Export Confluence Cloud page to ODT - has anyone tried this?

[Brita Moorus]

Hey all,

I'm exploring whether it's possible to build a Forge app that exports a page to ODT format, and I'm hitting a bit of a wall conceptually.

• Confluence Cloud only supports built-in exports like Word, PDF, HTML, XML - no ODT out of the box

• Forge apps can fetch page content via REST and render/export logic, but there's no native support for ODT conversion

• Most examples I've seen focus on Word/PDF export flows or custom macro export handling

So before I go too far down the rabbit hole… 🐇

Questions:

• Has anyone actually implemented ODT export from Confluence Cloud (Forge or otherwise)?

• If yes - did you handle conversion inside Forge or via an external service (e.g. Pandoc, LibreOffice)?

• Any gotchas with formatting fidelity (tables, macros, layouts, etc)?

• Are there existing apps or libraries I might have missed that already solve this?

• Alternatively - is there a smarter intermediate format (e.g. HTML → something → ODT) that worked well for you?

I'd love to hear if someone has already tried (or failed at 😄) this before I reinvent the wheel.

Thanks! 💙

[Tomislav Tobijas]

@Brita Moorus as you're on TEAM, I'd recommend heading over to Rovo and Forge booths 😄

We did have a quick discussion about the page-to-CSV exporter (basically, a similar request to yours), and the team said it's possible to build something like that.

What I'd also highly recommend is to try this (if you haven't already): https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-AI-Rovo-articles/Build-custom-Forge-apps-in-Rovo-Studio-no-code-required/ba-p/3223509 
Like, the feature is amazing to say the least 🤩
You could prompt Rovo to build the app for you (or at least give some insights and direction) and then you could build up from there.

Also, if you don't get an answer here, you could try checking Developer community and see if folks there could help out.

In any case, I'm keen to hear the results or if anyone managed to build something like that 👀