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. 

• Prework

• Guide

Prework

Before you start, read and understand the following information:

• Understand the macro differences and feature differences between the Page Approval for Confluence Server and Confluence Cloud.

• Be aware of the following limitations, and take the suggested actions if needed:
  

  • Page Approval Report and Page Acknowledgement Report are unsupported macros. The macro will be migrated but will not be available in Confluence Cloud. 

  • Page Approval macro can be migrated, it will be 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 Server is not approved, the page status shown post-migration is "Request Approval". 

    • If the page in Server is approved, the page status shown post-migration is "Approved". The user needs to manually start a new approval request by clicking on the page's status panel. 

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

• This guide assumes you have successfully migrated your Confluence Server data into Confluence Cloud, per Atlassian's Server to Cloud migration guide.

Guide

At the end of this guide, you will have: 

• Upgraded Page Approval for Confluence Server to version 5.1.14 or above.  

• Prepared the Page Approval for Confluence Server data at the server.

• Performed migration using the Confluence Cloud Migration tool. 

• Checked and reconfigured the Page Approval for Confluence Cloud data at cloud. 

Depending on how large your Confluence data is, these may 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:

• (Optional) prepare a set of test data and a staging instance to perform a pre-migration environment test before production migration. 

• 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 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 instance 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. 

To go back to the migration hub, click here.