Generally available for ConfiForms form administrators with Confluence admin permissions and for users who are Confluence space admins of the space where this form is located
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Manual process
You are presented with a screen similar to this
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Uploading the data into the form will replace existing data. No IFTTT rules will be executed
Use case on Recovery API - How to copy the data from one form to another with the same structure
Automation
We have developed a simple Java based script that downloads the data in a RAW format from the source server/page and attempts to upload it to the target server
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.vertuna.plugins.confluence</groupId> <artifactId>confiforms-data-migration</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <properties> <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source> <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target> </properties> <repositories> <repository> <id>atlassian-public</id> <url>https://maven.atlassian.com/maven-external</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy> <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy> </releases> </repository> <repository> <id>maven-atlassian-com</id> <name>Atlassian Public Repository</name> <url>https://packages.atlassian.com/maven/public</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId> <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId> <version>3.1-atlassian-2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>commons-lang</groupId> <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>commons-io</groupId> <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> |
How to run/execute this
You will need Apache Maven (https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi) and Java installed on your computer, then navigating to the directory where the pom.xml file is located, via command prompt, you will need to type the following commands
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mvn compile
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.vertuna.plugins.confluence.migration.MigrateFormData |