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We’re here to help you make your migration as smooth as possible.

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Sites

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(lightbulb) You can add any space to as many Refined sites as you like.

Navigation menu

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Categories

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You group spaces with Refined Pages and menu folders instead (and JSM projects too, if you have Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud).

Site and
Category homes

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You edit these pages with the intuitive what-you-see-is-what-you-get Page Builder. Available modules differ slightly from Server/DC: see a comparison.

Blog site

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You can create a blog site by adding a space with only blog posts to a Refined site and using the News module to show the blogs on landing pages.

Announcement Banners

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Themes

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Advanced Themes

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You can still add custom CSS to alter your theme (but note that we don’t support issues caused by custom CSS).

Confluence formatting and macros

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Sometimes you may want to embed Confluence pages so they look in native Confluence. For example when they include some of the few formatting or macros that Refined doesn’t (fully) support.

Note that this feature is in beta and limitations apply.

Space Layouts

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Each space gets a fully customizable landing page and can be tailored further with space settings.

Third party apps

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Some apps or macros provided by third party Marketplace vendors might work on native Confluence, but not on Refined sites. Read more in step 3 of the preparation guide below.

Refined macros

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Refined for Confluence Cloud doesn’t include any Refined macros. Possible solutions for this depend on your specific setup and require the app Refined Toolkit for Confluence Cloud. See step 4 of the detailed migration preparation guide below.

User Dashboards

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User Categories

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Custom domains on sites

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(lightbulb) Give each site a custom URL for quick access and easy recall.

Jira Content on sites

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(lightbulb) Combine the power of Confluence and Jira, by installing Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud.

Promoted search results

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(lightbulb) Offer users a better search experience than in Confluence: suggest pages based on their search query.

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  • You can create as many sites as you want. What content can you split out into multiple sites?

  • You can add a space to as many sites as you want. What content can be relevant to include on multiple sites?

  • It’s easy to combine both JSM portals and Confluence spaces into one Refined site, if you get both Refined for Confluence Cloud and Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud. Could this improve your workflow and your site’s user experience? It opens up many new ways of using Refined, including:

    • Building an intranet that features Confluence pages and blogs, as well as JSM portals. For example, this makes it easy for users to explore the company’s employee handbook and directly contact HR if they have any questions.

    • Creating an external-facing help site that features not just Confluence spaces, but also help desks. This way, users can create support requests if they can’t find what they are looking for.

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Refined for Confluence Server/DC

Refined Toolkit for
Confluence Cloud

Activity Stream

UI Activity Stream

  • Supported settings: Title, Max items (limit), Types, Authors, Labels (label), Spaces (space key)

  • Unsupported settings: Content Types, Authors, Category key, CQL

Content Layout

Content Layout

(warning) This macro is available on Cloud, but it is not migrated from Server/DC to Cloud. This means that you have to recreate it on Cloud.

Page Tree

UI Page Tree

(warning) This macro is available on Cloud, but it is not migrated from Server/DC to Cloud. This means that you have to re-add it on Cloud.

News

News

  • Supported settings: Title, Theme (DisplayMode), Max items (limit), ProfilePic, ShowSpaceName, Labels (label), Spaces, CQL

  • Unsupported settings: Type, Profile pictures, Categories, Show space name, View in popup, Expand first item

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Refined Toolkit for Confluence Server/DC

Refined Toolkit for
Confluence Cloud

UI Button

UI Button

  • Supported settings: Title, URL, Tooltip, Size, and Color.

  • Unsupported settings: Icon, Display, Open in a new window

  • It’s not possible to set custom color profiles on Cloud.

  • URLs are static. If they link to local pages and blog posts in Server/DC, you need to manually change the link to the new URL in Cloud.

UI Children

UI Children

  • Supported setting: Page

  • Unsupported settings: Display, Columns, Sort children by, Reverse sort

UI Children Cards

Turns into a UI Children macro with the cards display mode.

UI Expand(s)

UI Expand(s)

  • Supports the same settings as on Server/DC

UI Image

  • Images are migrated if you have Refined Toolkit Cloud, but they are not editable. To add images in Cloud, simply insert them in the Confluence Editor.

UI Step(s)

UI Step(s)

  • Unsupported setting: Size

UI Tab(s)

UI Tab(s)

  • Supports the same settings as on Server/DC

UI Text Box

UI Text Box

  • Supported setting: Type

  • Unsupported settings: Text size, Show icon

  • It’s not possible to set custom color profiles on Cloud.

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Layout Editor modules
Server/DC

Page Builder modules
Cloud

Activity Stream

Activity Stream

Confluence Content

There is no Cloud equivalent for this Server/DC module, because of technical differences between Cloud and Server/DC.

HTML

HTML

My Work

To show Confluence pages that the current user has worked on:

  1. Add an Activity Stream module or Pages module.

  2. Set it up with CQL: type=page AND contributor = currentUser()

Navigation Cards

Card

Navigation Image

Image

Navigation Icon

Icon

Navigation Content

Add an Image module with the Navigation Content style.

Navigation Highlight

Add an Image module with the Navigation Highlight style.

News

News

Pages

Pages

Search

Search Highlight

Spaces

The Site Navigation module automatically shows the landing page’s child spaces. To show only specific spaces, add them as individual items to a Links module.

User Details

Users in Category

Users

Create similar user overviews manually with Image and Text modules.

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Button

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Divider

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Page Tree

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Site Navigation

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Spacer

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Text

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Links

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Issue Types (if you have Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud)

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Jira Issues (if you have Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud)

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My Requests (if you have Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud)

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Request Types (if you have Refined for Jira Service Management Cloud)

Need more help?

Have a look at the FAQ and the demos & other resources page.

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