Find pages still using Legacy editor

Cora Egli September 17, 2024

We migrated from Confluence Server to Cloud and moved 14K pages in the process. We enabled automatic transition to the new editor, which works for many pages except for the very complex ones - the ones I need to take a closer look at.

How can I find out how many of our pages still use the Legacy Editor? (I know how to recognize pages in the Legacy Editor, but only if I stumble across them.)

I saw this post but hoped there might be an update: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-you-know-which-editor-a-page-uses/qaq-p/1412049

Best, Cora

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Henning Stoll
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September 17, 2024

Hi, you can use the API /wiki/rest/api/content/{content-id}?expand=metadata.properties.editor. If the value is ‘v2’, it’s the new editor. If it’s not present or ‘v1’, then it’s the old editor. Just use Postman or the API Tool of your choice and fill in the base url of your instance before and youll be able to find this out.

This to my knowledge is the only possible way to check this out in the cloud.

Best regards

Henning

Cora Egli September 17, 2024

@Henning Stoll Many thanks for your help. This is sound advice. I am not familiar with the REST API, so I had hoped there might be a way to find these pages via Confluence UI (search/filter). But I'll check with the IT department.

 

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Hi @Cora Egli To my knowledge this is the only possible way, since they have brought most of the macros up to date so theres no more visble difference in the pages layout. But this is a verry innacurate way to check anyways. Dont be afraid to use rest api for this use case its not very complicated you just need to generate an api token and then in postman you just use your jiras base url and attach the given ending. As authentification you use your jira email and the api token and you can send the API and should get your result

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Cora Egli September 17, 2024

@Henning Stoll Thank you for the encouragement! Will give it a try.

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