Download, edit, upload?

Question

I need to make a number of changes to a page that would be trivial to do in my text editor, no matter what intermediate format were used.

Is there an easy way to download a confluence page, edit it, then upload it back to replace the original?  I know a number of other similar tools have this functionality but I'm not finding it in confluence.

Rich Pixley · Answer

"Note: the new editor doesn’t support markup."

Thank you for trying.  Yes, markup would solve my problem today.

I think the long term solution for me will be that I stop using confluence as a document editor.  Anything more than a paragraph or two will need to be done in some other document format and linked to.

Confluence can still be used for trivial documents and for indexing and organizing content but it simply isn't up for much more.

Anne Saunders · Answer

AAAAND once I knew you were looking for Anchors and markdown, it got easier to find you an answer! Confluence wiki markup syntax

Anne Saunders · Answer

Are you lucky enough that your anchors are all to content headings? In that case, each one has its own URL anyway and you don't need to muck around with Anchors - and even imported text with enforced heading hierarchy will have them when pasted. You're still stuck making the actual links, but it's less terribad.

Unfortunately, the nature of anchors in Confluence is sufficiently different from the nature of bookmarks in Google Sheets and Word that they don't play nicely when copied out.

They APPEAR to work at first when pasted in, but unfortunately, the links still point to the document bookmarks, rather than creating anchors in Confluence. (Making this approach a no go, especially for anyone without access to your Google Workspace or O365 instance.)