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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.
Master issue to track all related cases which could be solved by a tool to migrate all old viewfile macros (viewpdf, viewppt, viewxls and viewdoc) to the new File Previewer.
[CONFSERVER-32097] Migrate old viewfile macro to new Files macro
Chris Ridgeway
added a comment - Hey - we're upgrading to Confluence 5.8 from 5.6.1, and one of the top features we were happy about was the new integrated PDF file viewer released at 5.7
We have used the View File Macro extensively throughout our Wiki (hundreds of pages), but at some point it began to be buggy enough to be nearly unusable—usually displaying broken image links. A typical page for us would look like this: http://recordit.co/BoNkuRkI3d
Now we have installed 5.8 on our QA server before deploying, and testing has shown that the View File Macro has had no change - it appears to have no integration with the new PDF viewing features.
We're at a loss. Is the only solution to manually re-edit every page in the entire instance and remove the broken macro and display the PDF in another way? There must be a better solution for this.
This has the effect of making the new features invisible to our users.
Thanks for your attention!
Chris Ridgeway
added a comment - Hey - we're upgrading to Confluence 5.8 from 5.6.1, and one of the top features we were happy about was the new integrated PDF file viewer released at 5.7
We have used the View File Macro extensively throughout our Wiki (hundreds of pages), but at some point it began to be buggy enough to be nearly unusable—usually displaying broken image links. A typical page for us would look like this: http://recordit.co/BoNkuRkI3d
Now we have installed 5.8 on our QA server before deploying, and testing has shown that the View File Macro has had no change - it appears to have no integration with the new PDF viewing features.
We're at a loss. Is the only solution to manually re-edit every page in the entire instance and remove the broken macro and display the PDF in another way? There must be a better solution for this.
This has the effect of making the new features invisible to our users.
Thanks for your attention! adaly, sorry, I changed description back. This ticket is to track migration of all viewfile macros to new Files macros.
Cheers
Petro
I see this has changed from "Migrate old viewfile macro" to "Migrate old PDF macro." What is the plan for other file types, such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint?
, can someone please take care of this issue?Unassigning form myself since I'm no longer in pdf land...
Just extracting upvoted issues:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19819 - 32
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26081 - 21
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17141 - 8
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31759 - 44
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16922 - 52
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32952 - 3
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/OFFCONN-33 - 21
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33763 - 14
195 votes as of 30/01/2015.
Functional - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/OFFCONN-33
Functional - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32952
159 votes for issues labeled filepreview_fixed, but still no sign of a migration tool. You call that a fix?