Configure HTML export from Confluence

[Peter Francis]

I need to export a large number of pages from our Confluence wiki to HTML.

I've tried the Export to HTML option and this works fine .

I've even edited the Page Export Layout footer to add the company name etc.

My problem is I want to remove the 'Created by' and 'Last Modified' just below the page title.

Does anyone have any suggestions ?

[Yagnesh Bhat · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

If you are planning to import the exported pages to some other space, try changing it in the database straightaway after you import the html pages to that space. I think the CONTENT table has columns called CREATOR and LASTMODDATE, which you can set it to whatever you like (make it empty in your case) .

Even if you dont plan to import those pages to another space, you can still create a temporary space first, then do the database update like mentioned above and then export the pages back. Later on, you can delete the temporaray space if you want.

[Peter Francis]

Thanks for the suggestion Yagnesh.

I couldn't find a way of doing what I wanted using the page templates in Confluence. I generated the HTML pages and then went through them in Notepad++ and manually removed the text I didn't want, not the best way to do it but it worked (and I must say the HTML is nicely formatted which made it easy)

If I have to do this on a regular basis I will probably write a PowerShell script to add/remove sections of the pages.

I know the templates are produced using Velocity but its a little complex for the occasional user to hack , maybe a simpler method of controlling the output format would be a good idea.