Conversion of Lotus Notes DB forms to Confluence

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Always a good idea to move off Lotus Notes (I spent two years learning to thoroughly despise it in all its forms, horrid thing), but you'll need to give us a lot more detail before we can help you much.

[Ram]

Nic,

Thanks for your help. 

At present, we are track all the project related SDLC in the Lotus notes forms and these are primarily documentation of the requirements for Project/Docket etc. We are looking for options to move away from Lotus notes and convert those into confluence.  The current forms primarily consists of various editable fields, screenshots and attachments.  Looking for the feasibility using Confluence.

Thanks in Advance,

-Ram

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Confluence is more of a wiki than a structured place for "forms". It's built for documentation and free format text , and fields are not a natural construct for it. It does have lots of formatting options and you can do clever things with it, but assuming you translate your data into Confluence pages with tables of "fields", you'll find that the fields don't do much, when a user edits the page, they get access to all of the text within it. You won't have problems with attachments and screenshots, they'll work fine (and you can even extract data from them to display as part of the page), and you'll get the benefits of inline comments on them too. Going back to doing things as "forms" though, take a good look at the "Blueprint" and "Template" functions in Confluence, they allow you to build structured pages to help your users standardise and quickly create pages.

[Ram]

Thanks for taking your time and responding to my question. Thank you so much.