Confluence format - JIRA Wiki

Question

I have a customer that would like to have Confluence content into a JIRA fields (yes, ye I know....)

Whats the best scenario / solution ? Strip to text or is there a perl (or some Confluence/JIRA Plugin) convert the text.

I know the CLI has WIKI -> Confluence, but problably not the opposite - and I know it the total wrong way to go.

Stephen Deutsch · Answer

Hi Normann,

Indeed, Confluence has some ways to covert from Wiki Markup to Confluence XHTML Storage Format, but not the other way around.

Apart from this, the Jira and Confluence wiki formats actually differ in subtle ways that make them not completely compatible.

I would recommend to strip to text, but in the case of tables you will probably have problems.

Jira's markdown format is actually a variant of Textile, and you might have some luck using Pandoc to convert, although not all features are supported: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2497

Thomas Deiler_db00h3 · Answer

Dear @Normann P. Nielsen - TDC/Netic,

I believe, you have to make you own converter, that reads confluence contents, converts and inserts it in a multi line custom field in Jira. I would do this with REST. But before, I would try to convince the customer ;)

So long

Thomas