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Bulk Change of Links in Confluence

Glenn Mason

We are heavy users of Confluence and Jira.

In Confluence we have links to many Jira issues and with our recent move from Hosted Jira to OnDemand Jira all those Jira issues links in Confluence are now broken.

The urls have changed from https://blah.onjira.com/ to https://blah.atlassian.net/ so should be reasonably easy to do a replace if such a facility or process exists.

Our Confluence version is 4.1.

Any help is muchly appreciated.

Accepted answers

RianA

Hi Glenn,

If the name of your JIRA instance is still similar, you could just reestablish the application link to your JIRA. However it seems that you're using OnDemand version, which is unable to establish application link to outside instance due to its restricted function.

Perhaps you could use the following SQL. Please bear in mind this would work with MySQL and backup your database for safety purpose.

UPDATE BODYCONTENT 
	SET BODY = replace(BODY,'https://blah.onjira.com/','https://blah.atlassian.net/') 
	WHERE BODY LIKE '%https://blah.onjira.com%';

Hope it helps

All comments

RianA

Hi Glenn,

Perhaps you could use the following SQL. Please bear in mind this would work with MySQL and backup your database for safety purpose.

UPDATE BODYCONTENT 
	SET BODY = replace(BODY,'https://blah.onjira.com/','https://blah.atlassian.net/') 
	WHERE BODY LIKE '%https://blah.onjira.com%';

Hope it helps

Forest F. White

So, I have about 10k links of varying macros and types. Of course, doing this by hand is something appropriate to 1982's wordstar editor, which didn't have a "find and replace" command. That we cannot do this is a definite time-sink.

Kristin Lyons

Is there a way to run this for URLs listed in the description of JIRA issues where the URL has changed?

Kavirajacholan Selvaraj

Hi @Kristin Lyons DO you face any issues updating the Update command? I am actually updating the BODYCONTENT Table, But it looks like BodyCOntent Table is crashed post update.

I have used exactly like this apart from Where statement, I used ContentID instead of Body.

Please help me, Since we are moving live this Friday.

Kristin Lyons

@Kavirajacholan Selvaraj the script worked for us to fix the links in Confluence with a Postgres DB but we were unable to find a way to fix the links in JIRA's comments or descriptions

Andrew_McCollum

I need to jump on this. We have a Dev Environment and a Prod Environment that we migrate Dev pages into. We need a way to find all links automatically that say "Https://mysite/studiodev" and change it to "Https://mysite/studio".