Step 2 - Post-migration

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


Migrated Page Approval macros behavior in cloud

Macro name

Functionality

Details

Macro name

Functionality

Details

Page Approval

Readonly

The macro is readonly, it cannot be edited in the Cloud environment

  • the approvers and acknowledger username(s) are carried over

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.