Migrate Page Approval Server to Page Approval Cloud

This page outlines the steps to migrate your Page Approval data from Confluence Server or 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 Server and Confluence Cloud

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

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

The Page Acknowledgement Report is an unsupported macro. The macro will be migrated but will not be available in Confluence Cloud.

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

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

if the page in the server instance is not approved, the page status shown post-migration is Request Approval
If the page in server instance is approved, the page status shown post-migration is Approved

perform a test migration to understand the steps required to migrate data and reconfigure the migrated data

At the end of this guide, you will have:

Depending on how large your Confluence data is, this process may take a few hours to complete.

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 Server to version 5.1.14 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

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