User Macros not editable after restore

Question

Good Morning from Germany!

I'm expiriencing the following Problem:

When I'm restoring Confluence from an XML-Backup everything seems fine at first glance. But when trying to edit a user macro on a page it loads for eternity and i am not able to reach the menu to set parameters.

The next curiuous thing is: When I edit the macro definition from the configuration menu and save them i am again able to edit the macro parameters on a space.

Is this a confluence-Bug or am i just importing the wrong way?

This is what I've done for testing:

- Export from Confluence 6.1.2 to Confluence 6.7

- Export from Confluence 6.1.2 to Conluence 6.1.2

- Export from Confluence 6.1.2 to Confluence 6.3

- Export from Confluence 6.7 to Confluence 6.1.2

Neither of the above tests showed the desired result....

Thanks for your help in advance

Fabian_Ebner · Answer

Hi Ann,

thanks for your answer. At the moment I'm building indeed a testing environment. We have several different Confluence-Instances which need to have that specific version but with the same content. Therefore I am trying to provide these instances with a global backup from my development-instance.

We heavily rely on user macros (about 30 macros). Because of that it's realy annouying to open every macro and save it again on every Confluence-Instance... (30 macros on 7 instances plus verifying that everything works....)

I've upvoted the Jira-Issue and hope this gets fixed soon!

Best Regards

Fabian

AnnWorley · Answer

Hi Fabian,

You are running into a bug: Can't edit User Macros after upgrading Confluence 6.6.0(User Macros broken after upgrading) The same symptom of being able to edit then re-save the user macros to fix the issue was reported in the comments and in a support case.

Please let me know why you are importing a site import. Are you building a test/staging environment? There are several caveats with the site imports, described in Restoring a Site. In particular, wanted to call your attention to:

Version compatibility. Confluence accepts site backups from many previous Confluence versions. You can check which versions are accepted in the Backup and Restore screen. You can only import into a later version of Confluence, not an earlier one.

At the moment the only workaround is to edit the User Macro and re-save it, which only appears to work temporarily.

Please add your input on the bug report, to emphasize the inconvenience this is causing.

Thanks,

Ann