Migration Path

We recommend to manually migrate the settings for the blog posts on the dashboard. The Lively Blog Posts macros, unfortunately do not get migrated automatically, and have to be replaced manually in Cloud. The global “Blogs” page, custom categories and the “Dashboard” and “Overview” macros are not available in Cloud.

Prerequisites

• Confluence Server or Data Center instance

• Confluence Cloud instance

• On both instances:

  • Latest version of Lively Blogs installed

  • Confluence admin permissions

Migrations steps

These steps will explain how you can migrate your Lively Blogs dashboard settings and macros from Confluence Server to a Confluence Cloud instance.

Step 1. Move content to Confluence Cloud

Follow the Cloud Migration Guide to move your Confluence content from Server to Cloud.

Step 2: Manually migrate the dashboard settings

On the Confluence Server instance:

1. Navigate to Lively Blogs → Settings in the Confluence Administration

2. Keep the page open, for example in an additional browser tab

On the Confluence Cloud instance:

1. Navigate to Apps → Lively Blogs in the Confluence Administration

2. Configure “Image position”, “Time frame” and “Number of blog posts” like the settings in the Server instance under “Featured Posts”

3. Configure “Restrict to these spaces, labels, authors” like the settings in the Server instance under “Dashboard”

4. Configure “Label for important posts” like the settings in the Server instance under “Global”

5. Configure “Time frame for important posts” and “Maximum number of important posts” and “Sort by” like the settings in the Server instance under “Blogs Page”

Step 3: Manually Lively Blog Posts macros

On the Confluence Server instance:

1. Navigate to Macro Usage → Lively Blogs for Confluence in the Confluence Administration and click on “lively-blog-posts”

2. Keep the page open, for example in an additional browser tab

On the Confluence Cloud instance:

1. For every page you see on the search result of the server instance, open, and edit it, search for the same title in the same space on the Cloud instance, also open and edit it.

2. Replace the old Lively Blog Posts macro with the new Lively Blogs macro and apply the parameters from the Server instance

3. Repeat for every page. It could occur that there are multiple Lively Blog Posts macros on the page

Still Unclear? Reach Out to Us

If you need help with any of these migration steps, please create a ticket. We are happy to help! 🙂