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  2. MIG-42

Detect and change the Full Base URL of Confluence in the body of pages

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      Issue Summary

      If you have hardcoded links to attachments or pages and you migrate over to the Cloud those links will be broken.

      Steps to Reproduce

      1. Insert an attachment on a page.
      2. On the sidebar of the page, click on the three-dotted button select "Attachments" from the menu.
      3. Copy the link, it should be something like this for Cloud https://instance.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/pageid/attachment_name?api=v2
      4. Paste on another page

      Expected Results

      Links would be updated to the new URL and the page id's as well.

      Actual Results

      The links will be broken still pointing to the old instance.

      Notes

      • Right now, if the Base URL of Confluence is copied and pasted into the editor, Confluence will automatically converts it into a Relative URL. These links works fine after migration
      • Though, full Base URL of Confluence entered via Insert > Link > Web Link are not detected. These links can't be used after migration
      • This behavior currently affects any kind of Confluence migrations, site import, space import, and Cloud Migration Assistant. Since the page id's change, it's very difficult to map those to the new pages.

      Workaround

      We don't have a fix for these links yet. Reach out to our technical support team in order to review the format of the links on your site and confirm if one workaround is feasible for your case.

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            [MIG-42] Detect and change the Full Base URL of Confluence in the body of pages

            Łukasz Halicki added a comment -

            Repairing links in Jira and Confluence can now be done by Atlassian internal link fixing tooling.

            For using that please reach out to Atlassian Migration Support.

            Łukasz Halicki added a comment - Repairing links in Jira and Confluence can now be done by Atlassian internal link fixing tooling. For using that please reach out to Atlassian Migration Support.

            Vishal Jadhav added a comment -

            https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/MOVE-127898

            Vishal Jadhav added a comment - https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/MOVE-127898

            Caterina Curti added a comment -

            Hi jeffrey.chen,
            Caterina (Product Manager for the Cloud Migration Assistant for Confluence) here. Thank you for your feedback.

            I'm following the request with our support team to make sure that I fully understand the scenario and that we can plan for a short term and long term solution.

            Thank you haftab for creating this request.

            Caterina Curti added a comment - Hi jeffrey.chen , Caterina (Product Manager for the Cloud Migration Assistant for Confluence) here. Thank you for your feedback. I'm following the request with our support team to make sure that I fully understand the scenario and that we can plan for a short term and long term solution. Thank you haftab for creating this request.

            Jeffrey Chen added a comment -

            Thanks @Hassan for raising the suggestion.

            Since we, self-managed site admins, haven't setup any restriction on the usage of Full Base URL or Relative URL and users would expect that all the links will be available after migration to Confluence Cloud, it would be quite challenging for us when there are hundreds of Full Base URLs in the DB. 

            If the migration tool can help us to change the Full Base URLs, it would save us a lot of time and efforts on dealing with this issue. 

            Jeffrey Chen added a comment - Thanks @Hassan for raising the suggestion. Since we, self-managed site admins, haven't setup any restriction on the usage of Full Base URL or Relative URL and users would expect that all the links will be available after migration to Confluence Cloud, it would be quite challenging for us when there are hundreds of Full Base URLs in the DB.  If the migration tool can help us to change the Full Base URLs, it would save us a lot of time and efforts on dealing with this issue. 

              06eb947e2f93 Łukasz Halicki
              haftab Hassan Aftab
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