How can I bulk upload external html pages from zoomin documentation portal?

[Paul Rathgeb]

We are looking to use Confluence Cloud as our exclusive document creation platform. We need to move about 2000 pages created in Zoomin's Documentation Portal into Confluence. We are able to get the docs in a large html file. How can we import these into Confluence?

[Kristian Klima · Accepted solution]

Hi @Paul Rathgeb 

As far as I know, you can only import XML / CSV files that must be Confluence compatible. That's a fancy way of saying that, technically speaking, you can only import files exported from other Confluence sites.

However...

You can engineer a tool / script that would convert a Zooming XML export into something that Confluence can digest (been there, done that with a different source tool).

Maybe somebody already wrote something similar.

The success of this depends on how uniform is your Zoomin content. I've been thru a lot of migrations and NONE was perfect and EACH required a massive preparation phase followed by massive sanitation post migration phase.

For one-off migrations, the fastest way proved to be good old fashioned copy/paste method from a static HTML site (whether generated from Zendesk, MadCap Flare, or Paligo) into Confluence.

It's a lot of copy pasting for 2000 pages. But it's not as hard as it sounds. I had an intern who moved 450 pages from an old documentation site to Confluence in 6 weeks working part time. Then he spent about a month on sanity check - which you'd have to do anyway. 

So at the end of the day, it's a trade-off between spending time on engineering a one-off tool or just doing it manually.

[Paul Rathgeb]

Thanks @Kristian Klima . It's not what I was hoping for, but about what I expected. I appreciate your thoughtful reply.