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Migration to Cloud

Migration to Cloud

This page outlines the steps to migrate your Page Approval data from Confluence Data Center to Confluence Cloud.

Pre-work

Before you start, read, review, and understand the macro differences and feature differences between the Page Approval for Confluence Data Center and Confluence Cloud

You also need to be aware of the following limitations and take the suggested actions if needed.

Page macros

The Page Approval Report is an unsupported macro. The macro is migrated, but it is not available in Confluence Cloud. 

The Page Acknowledgement Report is an unsupported macro. Although it has been migrated, it is not available in Confluence Cloud. 

The Page Approval macro can be migrated, but it is a readonly macro in Confluence Cloud. 

Page approval status

The page approval status can be migrated successfully to the Page Approval Cloud app:

  • If the page in the hosted instance is not approved, the page status shown post-migration is Request Approval 

  • If the page in the hosted instance is approved, the page status shown post-migration is Approved

To set a page to approved status, a user must manually start a new approval request by selecting the page status panel. 

Migration

Perform a test migration to understand the steps required to migrate data and reconfigure it.

Before migrating from the Data Center to the Cloud, page restrictions must be removed from all pages that use Page Approvals.

This guide assumes you have successfully migrated your Confluence Data Center data into Confluence Cloud, detailed in Atlassian's Cloud Migration Guide.

Guide

At the end of this guide, you will have: 

Depending on the size of your Confluence data, this process can take a few hours to complete.  

Step 1 - Proceeding with Cloud migration

Follow through with the steps in Step 1 - Proceeding with Cloud migration

Overview

  • Prepare a set of test data and a staging instance to perform a pre-migration environment test before production migration OPTIONAL

  • Upgraded Page Approval for Confluence to version 5.3.1 or above

  • Find and identify the spaces that are using the Page Approval macros

  • Perform the migration using the Atlassian Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant(CCMA) tool

  • Schedule the migration window

Step 2 - Post-migration

Go through the migrated Page Approval macro behavior in Step 2 - Post-migration

Overview

  • Have your Confluence cloud site ready

  • Identify the supported and unsupported Page Approval macros in a cloud environment

  • Understand how the approval status from the macro is displayed as status panels 

Start Migration Process