How to import pages with links and attachments as Word documents

Question

I'm leaving another wiki platform, and have all my 56,000 wiki pages as Word documents. I plan to bulk import them in concatenated groups using the Split option to break them into separate pages at each Header 1. Many of the pages reference other pages, or reference pdf files. Can I create these links while I'm still in Word, so that they will transform to proper Confluence links when they are imported? I tested the markup link syntax, but it didn't work, it just appeared as plain text.

Nancy Hadley · Answer

Shawn, thank you for your answer. It is disappointing since the documentation for older versions states that markup language in a Word document will be automatically converted on import, but apparently this is no longer true for the current version. So it's a deprecated feature, I guess.

I have figured out a workaround. I created an empty parent page for each of my indexes, noted down the page IDs, then formatted my links to the child pages as "https://[mysite].atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=[mykey]&title=[child page name]&linkCreation-true&fromPageId=[parent page ID]" I've tested this with small imported documents, and it seems to work even between children of different parents (so long as I don't click any link until after that child page has been uploaded). It's clunky but do-able. Markup links would have been so much easier!

-Nancy

Shawn C · Answer

Hi Nancy,

I'm afraid that the Confluence Word Importer does not import in cross-reference links that are contained in Word Documents.  There was a Feature Request to bring in the ability to import these cross-references however it was not something our Developers were looking to implement at this time (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-39140).

I know this is troubling news since you mentioned that your pages contain multiple references to each other.

If you have any feedback about the this feature and how this will impact your Import, I do ask that you include it on the Feature Request case as it can help to influence our Developer's decisions on what new Features to bring into the product.

-Shawn