Broken Links When Copying Pages from One Space to Another

Caroline Antoun

We recently did a redesign of our KM space. We worked on it in a separate design space and tried to migrate it back over when finished. For some reason, the administrator could not migrate over so they made copies of the pages to our OG space. In doing so, all links seemed to have not migrated with the pages -- even if it was just a header anchor link within an article. When you click on them, they redirect you to our Redesign space, and not our OG space we copied the pages into. Anyone experience this? Anyone have any quick solutions on a mass scale? I really don't want to manually update THOUSANDS of links.

Kris Klima _K15t_

Hi @Caroline Antoun 

If you make copies of individual pages, the outbound links have no way of knowing what's happening with the pages they're linking to.

The only remedy is to copy all the pages at once - as the content of the entire space is copied in one big chunk, the integrity of the links within that chunk will be preserved.

Confluence has Move and Duplicate features but in the past I always relied on the Copy Page Tree app by Appfire for one-off copying of spaces/sections of spaces. The app does preserve the links in whatever chunk of space you're copying.

For more sophisticated use-cases (such as synchronizing two spaces), I used dedicated apps.

 

So... I would empty the target space, purge the trash, and try using a method that moves/copies the entire space in one go.