Bulk move nested macros

Question

I'm currently in the middle of migrating from confluence server to confluence cloud.

Since Atlassian removed the feature of nesting a macro within a 3rd party macro, I am left with 50+ macros nested in a 3rd party macro. For context, confiforms macros nested in a refined toolkit application.

I have to essentially remove the 50+ confiforms macros from within the refined toolkit macro which is both time consuming and tedious. Not to mention that it messes with the formatting.

Does anyone know of a better way to un-nest this without drammatically messing up the format? I tried copy and pasting the confiforms macro outside of the refined toolkit app but that led to undesirable results and messy formatting.

Michael Yang - Shinetech Software · Answer

If you’re trying to clean up or move nested macros in bulk, check out our app Easy Bulk Tools:https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1237934

It lets you bulk remove or replace macros across many Confluence pages.No scripting needed — just a simple UI with support for space or label-based selection.

Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM · Answer

This would be a job for scriptrunner.

I would play around with Scriptrunner to find a way to recreate the pages so the macros are not nested, and then work on formatting the page so it is readable again.  I do not see a way to avoid throwing off the formatting.  I would expect this to take many hours if not days.

Or, I would export the entire site, create scripts in python, perl or your favorite scripting language to rewrite the pages, and import them to a new space that I would then test and use as my export source in the migration to the cloud.

There may be marketplace apps or partner-supplied tools for unnesting but I am not aware of one publicly available.