6 posts tagged with "Export"

Migrating Confluence content is something most teams eventually face. Whether you are moving from Confluence Server to Cloud, reorganizing spaces after a company merger, or splitting a monolithic workspace into focused team spaces, the process can feel overwhelming. Pages link to each other, attachments sit deep in page trees, permissions are inherited from parent spaces, and macros pull data from external sources.

This guide walks through the entire Confluence content migration process from start to finish. You will learn how to plan your migration, choose the right tools for your scenario, export and import content without losing data, and validate the result. We cover both Atlassian's built-in export features and the Modern Importer Exporter for Confluence app for format-based migrations.

Jira issues accumulate attachments fast -- screenshots from QA, log files from production incidents, design mockups from product, contracts from legal. Before long, a single project can hold thousands of files across hundreds of issues. Two questions come up repeatedly: "How do I download all of these at once?" and "How do I make sure the right files -- and only the right files -- are attached?"

NGPILOT builds two apps that address these questions from different angles. Simple Bulk Attachment Downloader for Jira handles bulk exports -- downloading many attachments in one organized ZIP. Attachment Reviewer for Jira handles inbound control -- enforcing file type and size policies on every upload. This post compares both in detail so you can decide which one your team needs (or whether you need both).

Exporting Jira issues to Excel or CSV is useful for reporting, audits, and sharing issues with stakeholders. This guide walks through exporting filtered results using the Simple Bulk Issues Excel CSV Export app with practical JQL examples and field-selection tips.

Managing a Jira instance at scale means sooner or later you will need to act on dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of issues at once. Whether you are migrating projects, cleaning up stale tickets, bulk-downloading attachments for an audit, or exporting an entire backlog for offline analysis, doing it one issue at a time is not realistic. Bulk operations let teams apply the same change across many issues simultaneously, saving hours of repetitive manual work and reducing the risk of inconsistency that comes with editing tickets individually.

However, bulk operations carry real risk. A single misconfigured bulk edit can change the status, assignee, or custom field value of hundreds of issues in seconds, and Jira does not offer a one-click undo. That is why understanding the right tools, permissions, safeguards, and workflows is critical before you run any bulk job. This FAQ covers the most common questions teams ask when planning and executing bulk operations in Jira, from safety and rollback strategies to performance tuning and permission requirements.

Exporting Jira issues is something every team eventually needs to do, whether for migration, reporting, compliance, or backup. Yet the process is rarely as straightforward as clicking a button. Jira's native CSV export works for small result sets, but teams quickly run into field mismatches, encoding errors, custom field headaches, timeout failures on large projects, and the question of what to do with attachments. This FAQ answers the most common problems teams encounter when exporting Jira issues to CSV or Excel and provides practical solutions for each one.

Teams move content in and out of Confluence every day — migrating between instances, backing up documentation, importing from other tools, exporting for offline review. Confluence has basic PDF and HTML export built in, but it's limited. No bulk operations, no multi-format support, no structured import workflow.

Over a dozen marketplace apps try to fill this gap, but most solve one narrow problem: PDF export, Word import, or Markdown conversion. We built Modern Importer & Exporter for Confluence to handle both directions — import and export — across multiple formats. In this post we compare it against every alternative on the Atlassian Marketplace.