Reproducing your Comala hosted app workflows in Cloud
- Robert Alexander Marshall
The Atlassian Confluence cloud and Confluence-hosted platforms work differently, so exact feature parity between the environments is not possible. Because of these functional differences, the Atlassian Migration Assistant cannot migrate existing workflows from the server instance.
Moving your workflows to the cloud
The data center app includes a tool, the Workflow Translator for Cloud, to translate the hosted Confluence app workflow to a cloud-compatible workflow.
The translated workflow template code can be copied and pasted into the code editor in the document management app space settings in Confluence Cloud
Saving the copied workflow adds it to the document management app space settings in each cloud space.
Using workflow translator for cloud
A server or data center workflow can be translated to a cloud-compatible JSON code template using the server app Workflow Translator for Cloud tool. This workflow template code can then be copied and pasted into the code editor in the cloud app.
The tool is not able to translate all the workflow elements into a cloud-compatible workflow.
Some workflow elements, such as layout parameters for adding footers, headers, or workflow instructions, are not supported in Confluence Cloud.
The translation of a workflow trigger
is supported when it has an equivalent workflow trigger event in the cloud
workflow triggers with no equivalent workflow event in the cloud are not translated
In some cases, the workflow trigger event might be translated, but some trigger actions are unavailable in the cloud. When this occurs, the workflow trigger in the translated cloud-compatible workflow template can have empty trigger actions if the action is not supported in the cloud. These triggers must be recreated using the workflow builder visual editor or code editor in Comala Document Management for Cloud.
The data center workflow template markup highlights unsupported workflow elements, and the Unsupported Macros message box provides further details.
Cloud includes a workflow builder visual editor and code editor to create new workflows or customize an existing workflow. You can also use one of the workflows included with the cloud app.
Migration updates, including further support for the translation of workflows using the Workflow Translator for Cloud tool, can be found in the Migration to cloud updates page.