Importing Google Sites and Docs to Confluence

[Stephanie Stiavetti]

We've got a pretty robust Google implementation going on right now, and we're hoping to move it over to an existing Confluence installation. Are there any tools that will allow us to migrate our Google stuff to Confluence?

[David Dube · Accepted solution]

Do you need to migrate the content to Confluence? Could you use the Google Docs Connector for Confluence plugin by AppFusions as an alternate solution? There is Google Apps authenticator that may also be of help.

Just a thought.

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

Failed to specify the pricing of 10$-20000$ !?

[Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]]

That price has come down a bit since this was posted btw.

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

Thanks, up to $12000 now, so if the price is going down with the same rate in two more year we may consider it.

[Jason Caragan]

The Universal Wiki Converter, our free conversion tool, doesn't currently offer a converter module for Google Sites.

If you need some hands-on additional assistance with the conversion, the best option is to work with an Atlassian partner, as many do specialize in Confluence conversions and can write a custom converter for you. Feel free browse the partner directory. A couple to mention:

• Appfusions
• Artemis Software

I've also spotted an archived thread in our old forums, where Laura Kolker, one of the lead developers for the UWC, has mentioned some workarounds: http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=41131&tstart=0&messageID=257373633.

[Joe Steele]

Unfortunately all these links appear to be broken or unavailable to me. 

[Sherif Mansour]

In additon to all the above comments, you might also want to to watch / vote on these issues:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38192
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38193

[Julie Elman]

You can also manually embed doc files to a page, but this is a much more time-consuming approach by using the word doc import macro. It also does not enable you to edit the doc later. That requires the copy and paste (formatting has improved significantly for Drive to Confluence over the past several years.) or third party tools.

To complete the embed, you just need to drop the file in on a page and Confluence will embed the contents on the page from your file. see more information about the macro https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-microsoft-office-macros/

[Thom]

You can export the entirety of your Google Site using the tool found at http://code.google.com/p/google-sites-liberation/

[Barbara Green]

I am also interested in this, but I think half the problem is on the Google Sites side. I thought the new Google Sites API would help, but it looks to me as if it lets you copy a site (to create a new Google Site), not export the content. You can get all the attachments from a site, but I did not see a way to get the pages out in any usable format. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that; it would be a relief to see some easier way to migrate to Confluence.