Tell Us Which Importers You Want to See in Confluence!

[#1]

Hi Confluence Community,

I’m Tiffany, a Product Manager at Confluence. We’re exploring new ways to simplify bulk content import into Confluence, aiming to consolidate all your information in one place and keep your team on the same page. We’re currently considering which importers to support and would love your input!

Which platforms would you like to see importers for? For instance, Miro, Notion, etc. Additionally, we’re interested in understanding your importer use cases - why you want an importer, what kind of content you're importing and the volume of content you plan to import.

Your feedback is invaluable to us. Thanks for your help!

Best,
Tiffany

[Samuel Gatica]

Hi @Tiffany Chung 

• Google Docs (Directly)

Best regards

Sam

[Ruth Schneider]

Hi @Tiffany Chung

great news that there is more to come :)

Definitely Miro as we are trying to move Miro boards into Confluence to consolidate further and increase the use of whiteboards.

Right now boards either have to be re-built (which is often not an option) or can only be imported in a static format (which can't be searched like a jpg).

Best

Ruth

[Mick Szucs]

MediaWiki import would be great.

[Adam_Sterrie]

Hi Tiffany,
I have a user that has to import a large number of excel spreadsheets into Confluence. Currently they have to do this one by one which is extremely labour intensive/costly. Can you add a feature to enable importing multiple spreadsheets in one go, each one to a different Confluence database named after the spreadsheet filename? They could either list a location where all the spreadsheets (and nothing else ) exist, or could they list them individually, or could they just drag and drop them into an "upload box"?

[Kristian Klima]

Hello @Tiffany Chung 

Kris from Emplifi here. 

My product documentation team went thru 5 doc sets migrations (MadCap Flare, Paligo, Zendesk) in the last 18 months. We ended up manually copy-pasting pages from the respective static HTML pages after encountering quite a lot of issues.

I'll be more than happy to discuss the details and look into options how to help users migrate from other CMS tools to Confluence. It surfaces regularly here and on dedicated tech writers' fora such as Write the Docs on Slack.

Best,

Kris

[Amy Carey]

Being able to import into child pages as server did would be wonderful. For instance, setting up a Word doc with proper headings so when imported, each topic has its own child page created.

Also, we use Refined for Confluence so currently our end users don't have the ability/option to export as they did in server. Also, Export in standard UI/regular UI may not export to Word and PDF properly depending on the macros used on the page. For example, content inside a Refined Tab Container and Refined Tab doesn't export.

What compatibility is there for SharePoint Online?

[Jordi Garcia]

I think the most common ones are for HTML, Markdown, Word/DOC/Google Docs, and PDF as most other knowledge products can export into this format.

If you are talking about "migrating" between different products to Confluence I would say:

• Notion
• Zendesk, Freshdesk, intercom...
• Guru
• "Readme" like documentation (Markdown in Github usually)
• Obsidian
• MS Loop

And many more but I guess these are some of the most used ones?

EDIT: If we are also talking about whiteboard migrations on our case please add FigJam, otherwise Miro, Mural, Lucid...

[Stefan Draber]

+1 for an importer for Miro Boards.

Use case: moving from Miro to Confluence Whiteboards. Should be a no-brainer, right? 😉

[Jack Morrison]

We're actively considering migrating from Slab but the lack of import support makes it daunting. An official importer would be excellent.

[Koloman Pfeffer]

A few already said it, but definitely Miro - we really want to change to Confluence Whiteboards, but for many users with a lot of content on Miro, they still want to use (not only as static content), this would be a godsend.

[Yin Liang_XDevPod]

Lark

[Matt Reiner [K15t]]

I'm so glad someone from the team is looking at this! Thank you @Tiffany Chung

I made a sharable video version as well, to help get more people chiming in here.

[Tiffany Chung]

Thanks for the comments here folks! 

[Tiffany Chung]

Thanks for helping spread the word @Matt Reiner [K15t] ! Appreciate it.

[Helen C]

100% Live Miro boards both individually and in bulk. this si a deal breaker for us to upgrade to premium and get off Miro 

[Peter Bettens]

Hi, standard XML Dita would  be really interesting. SharePoint webpages also.

[Edoardo Landi]

Notion!

[Karine VANEL]

Hello,
For me , we need to have Google Site. We have more 3000 sites .....

[Gavin McMenemy]

Sharepont. Not everyone in our org uses Jira and a better interoperability between the two would make our lives much easier. 

[Tiffany Chung]

Hi folks, thanks for all the comments on this post. In the meantime, we've released our first bulk importer - Notion Importer on Confluence. Learn more about it here!

[Joshua Cole]

You know what would be kind of cool? Creating a space and a page hierarchy from Microsoft OneNote notebooks.

[Rhys Gottwald]

Happeo

[Rodrigo Angulo]

LucidChart and Lucid Spark

[Michele Colson]

• Coda.io
• Obsidian
• Outlook email