Step 2 - Post-migration
Activity: Review what happens to the Page Approval macros post-migration and understand how the approval status from the macro is converted in the cloud environment.
The migrated space with Page Approval macro automatically enables Page Approval for Confluence Cloud on your space in the cloud site.
Prerequisites
You have
Reviewed and completed all the steps on the previous page, Step 1 - Proceeding with Cloud migration
Administrator access to Confluence Cloud
Migrated Page Approval macros behavior in cloud
Macro name | Functionality | Details |
|---|---|---|
Page Approval | Readonly | The macro is readonly, it cannot be edited in the Cloud environment
Choose Details to view all the field values. |
Approved | If a page is approved on the hosted instance, the status panel in the cloud is also Approved. Choose the Approved status panel to display a window that confirms to the user that the page approval state has been migrated from data center Choose Start new to change the status panel to Request approval. | |
Not Approved | If a page is not approved on the hosted instance, the status panel in cloud is Request approval. If a page is not fully approved, such that only one user has approved the page out of two users, the status panel in cloud is also Request approval. | |
Page Approval Report | Not supported | The migrated macro redirects you to the Page Approval Dashboard. |
Page Acknowledgement Report | Not supported | The migrated macro redirects you to the Page Approval Dashboard. |
After the migration completes:
Reapply the required page restrictions to the migrated pages in Cloud and verify that page approvals behave as expected.
Page restrictions are not automatically restored during migration and must be manually added back in Cloud.