Hi there,
I need to import a Confluence space into a Flare project. Does anyone have any pointers or best practices?
I'm currently evaluating different help tools and need to import a Confluence project in order to test Flare.
Tova Cohen wrote:Thanks! I can confirm that it is possible and fast. I spent a lot of time with a trial version.
I did ask the MadCap folks and they were not able to point me to any specific experience with importing from Confluence.
And we have now purchased a license with maintenance so I will certainly make use of all the resources available to me.
We will be exporting XML files from Confluence and importing them to Flare 11.
So far, I've identified the following tasks for cleaning the source files before import:
- Remove Confluence TOC macros
- Remove horizontal line at the beginning of each document.
- Remove unused, attached images.
- Ensure that page titles and headings are descriptive and unique within the doc set.
To maintain xrefs, I believe I need to import all documents in one import operation. Sadly, I think that not all documents should be broken at Heading1s and so I'll have to pick the best setting for how to break up the incoming documents and will then have to do a lot of manual division of files to arrive at appropriate topics. Would love a workaround for that. I'll look for easy ways already documented in the forum for how to do that.
Thanks again for your response!
Tova