Bulk string replacement across Confluence

Question

We’re looking for a way to perform mass string replacements across all of our Confluence pages.

Many of our pages contain non-clickable hyperlinks to our network folders (i.e. resources outside of Confluence or Jira) in our corporate network. We're renaming these folders/locations and now we need a way to do a bulk replacement of the URL strings. We have over 6000 pages that have strings that need replaced, so manually isn't an option.

We can produce a table of ‘what to find’ and ‘what to replace with’, we just need a query or tool of some sort that our IT department can safely run that will make the changes. Help guide us please!

Example:

Old string: \corp.ourcompany.net\department\Shop\purchases\wireframes\Shop_Navigation

New string: \corp.ourcompany.net\marketing\online\store\purchases\wireframes\Shop_Navigation

Possibly related:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/149769/bulk-change-of-links-in-confluence

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.ck.confluence.gsr

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2522

Sabina H_ · Answer

Very true, I think we'll give that a try. We can use @allto search and replace within all pages in an instance, correct?

Sabina H_ · Answer

Very true, I think we'll give that a try. We can use @allto search and replace within all pages in an instance, correct?

Bob Swift · Answer

The SQL isn't that difficult, but you need someone who knows what they are doing and make sure you have a backup.

However, I would suspect this one task could be done within your 30 day free evaluation license period ;) .