Is there a way to merge Confluence Question topics?

[Dan Rumney]

If I have two topics foo and bar, is there a way for me to merge them so that bar is gone and all questions marked as bar and now marked as foo?

[Steffen Opel _Utoolity_]

I'm not aware of a built-in way to achieve this - accordingly, depending on the number of questions in your topic(s), it might be easiest to just visit them manually and adjust the topics as required.

However, in case you have too many questions for a manual approach, there is an experimental (!) Confluence Questions REST API available too as of recently:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-376

The following Confluence Questions REST Resources would seemingly allow to automate this:

• GET on /questions features a query parameter topicId
• GET on /questions/{questionId} for each returns the questionDTO element, seemingly containing an element with the question's topics
• PUT on /questions/{questionId}/topics seemingly allows to update the topic list

I haven't tried this myself yet though, and the API definitely seems experimental at this point ...

[Steffen Opel _Utoolity_]

@Dan Rumney - my answer is complete now. Sorry for the iterative approach, but I encountered the odd restriction that "Your post was rejected because it contains blacklisted words", and the resulting post is now word by word identical to the one that I wanted to submit in the first place, alas ...