Database not exporting Confluence page links

David D.
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July 4, 2024

Hi everyone,

I am using Confluence database to create a glossary of terms for my company. Within the database, for each term I have added a Confluence Page field to associate to any given term the page links. 

Wanting to use the raw data from the database, I tried a database export and noticed that the page links are not being export, rather it is the page title which is being exported.

Confluence displays internal links within the following HTML tags: 

<a href="<page_link>">...<span class="text"><page_title></span></a>

but when exporting it returns <page_title> rather than <page_link>.

This obviously makes the feature irrelevant for processing the raw format as there is no simple way to get the page using the title alone.

I think this may be a feature issue when exporting to CSV rather than something that I have not configured properly.

I'd be happy if you have work-around or if this can be added in future releases.

 

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Kristian Klima
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July 4, 2024

Hi @David D_ and welcome to the community.

I think that's a limitation of a CSV file.

Workaround:

  1. Select HTML as an export option.
  2. DO NOT click Export :) 
  3. Click Copy to Clipboard.
  4. Paste into your favorite spreadsheet software (I used Google Sheets and Excel)

Hope this helps.

Disclaimer: I didn't know that before I actually tried - learned something new today :) 

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