Links weren't updated when the page is move from one space to another

Isabel Chen
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June 12, 2024

Hi everyone, 

Need your advice on fixing broken links due to page migration.

We drafted the pages in Space 1 with the intention to move and publish the pages in Space 2.

However, a bulk of the internal links (aka shortcut) within the page didn't get updated/adjusted to the new space after the migration. They retained the url of the old space instead.

The expected behaviour is that the internal links should get updated to the new space. For example:  

Original link: https://XXX.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPACE1/pages/XXX#shortcut

After migration: https://XXX.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPACE2/pages/XXX#shortcut

 

My questions are:

1. What causes this issue? Usually, we'll update the text/title to heading format -> select the URL from the heading to use them as shortcut. 

2. Why does it only happen to some of the links?

3. Is there a way to correct these outdated links in bulk?

Thank you in advance!

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Kristian Klima
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June 13, 2024

Hi @Isabel Chen and welcome to the Community.

I'm assuming your using Comala Publishing or some other app that publishes content from a source to a target space.

The # sign in your links points to the links to subheadings (anchors) - so you're trying to link from Page A to a Heading 3 on Page B. It works fine in your Source space but not in your Target space.

Comala Publishing cannot resolve this

What might help is to, in your source space, create a link to the subheading in your target space (once you have the page-pair created).

 

(if you're not using the Publishing app and simply copying a section of the tree between the spaces, links pointing to the pages outside of the said section will point to the original space)

Yes, you can edit links in bulk using a marketplace app such as Link Management for Confluence by Lively Apps.

 

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