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Difficulty

A space is renamed

Requirement entities will be fine, but:

  • Cross-space references (Pages outside the space) will keep pointing to requirements in the old space. There is nothing we can do, since we're not touching the data outside the space. You will have to edit the XML of pages, directly in the database.

  • Jira links will point to the old space. To avoid this, export-then-reimport the Jira data as well, and map the space key. This is better supported than page-to-page cross-space references, since there is no XML to edit in Jira issues.

  • The history of Jira issues will still reference the old space keys, in case they have changed.

A Jira project is renamed

Same as above: Please also update the references in Confluence, since there are links to Jira, and this can be performed by exporting-then-reimporting the Confluence side.

Requirements are moved to a new instance

No difficulty, you just have to remap to a new Applink URL.

All page IDs have changed.

This happens when you import on a new Confluence instance.

  • You will have to look for the page with the same title, for each page ID and page version.

  • It is better if you gain SQL access to the database and update the table AO_32F7CE_DBBACKUPMAPPING in SQL, so you can retrieve the new page ID with a subquery.

There are requirements in Excel files.

We will reimport as-is, but the Excel attachment IDs will be wrong, since we do not remap them. Links to the Excel files will be broken, but the requirements will still exist.

What are the steps of the export / re-import process?

See What are the steps of export / re-import? for an overview of the process.

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