Copying bookmarks into confluence

[Benjamin Horst]

What I am trying to do:
copy bookmarks from Firefox into Confluence

steps I took:
-open bookmarks drop down
-right click on a folder -> copy
-paste into a new confluence page in edit mode

behaviour: The links get copied perfectly. URLs and their decriptions are pasted and transferred into Confluence links. Subfolder are indented so the hierarchy is displayed as well.

problem: neither in preview nor in the page view any content is shown. If I save the page and go back to edit mode, no content is displayed. I tested a bit and found out that if I remove the formatting completely, it works.

question: Is there a way to replace that indentations? Or another way to get a couple hundred booksmarks easily on a confluence page? If I remove it completly, all my links are one text without linebreaks or blanks, and I'd have to sort the URLs anew.

edit: for some reason, I can't add comments, atm. So I will update the data in here:

Giving an example doesn't really work without using Confluence wysiwyg editor, but I'll try.

If I:
-open bookmarks drop down
-right click on a folder -> copy

I have the output in my Clipboard. Whereverelse I paste this (jEdit, Windows Editor, Clipboard Tools, Eclipse...), I get the following output:

Spys
http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/InstantMockupForEclipseSWTApplications

But if I paste it in confluence I get:

Spys
Balsamiq for Eclipse SWT Applications

With an indented URL, the description I placed on my bookmark and a correct link to the page behind it.

[Benjamin Horst · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately no one seems to have a good idea there.

I now did a workaround and saved my bookmarks as html, transferred them into .docx format and imported the .docx into Confluence. Unfortunately links with a pipe | in its description are not imported corretly. But it's few links which face that problem.

A pity that such a sweet feature (copy&paste of all those links) that's already there doesn't work in the end.

[Benjamin Horst]

Since I used this solution, I will mark it as solution. If anyone has a better idea, I'll gladly add the Karma reward again ;).

[PeterKoczan]

Can you give an example of the formatting that is added and maybe based on that we can suggest and easy way to search&replace some tags to fix it.

Cheers,

Peter

[Benjamin Horst]

Giving an example doesn't really work without using Confluence wysiwyg editor, but I'll try.

If I:
-open bookmarks drop down
-right click on a folder -> copy

I have the output in my Clipboard. Whereverelse I paste this (jEdit, Windows Editor, Clipboard Tools, Eclipse...), I get the following output:

Spys
http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/InstantMockupForEclipseSWTApplications

But if I paste it in confluence I get:

Spys
Balsamiq for Eclipse SWT Applications

With an indented URL, the description I placed on my bookmark and a correct link to the page behind it.

[Benjamin Horst]

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