Confluence bulk page version compare
Asked by Tommy Sanddal Poulsen:

Hi in the community.

We have a number of situations in my company where we would like to extract/export/generate a page-version-compare/diff of a full confluence tree - comparing the current version of all the pages with the versions of a specific date/time.

Can any of you experts come up with a nice way of doing this?


Answers:
author: Kristian Klima
body: HI [@Tommy Sanddal Poulsen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5421908)

I don't know the details of your use-case but there's [Scroll Documents](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217608/scroll-documents-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app that allows you to create snapshots of the space at any given moment - and save them as virtual documents.

You continue working as usual, then create another snapshot.

And I think you can compare the diffs between the current state and the snapshots.

BTW, the trees in the snapshots are independent.

comments: author: Tommy Sanddal Poulsen
body: Thanks for the response Kristian - it's a very interesting approach. We are actually already using scroll documents. It does, however, not seem to be able to create a bulk-diff - they have an online tool (which times out on our amount of pages) where you can view diffs page-by-page, so although a great idea I have not been able to find a way through using scroll documents.


author: Kristian Klima
body: [@Tommy Sanddal Poulsen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5421908)

Well, I may confuse it with the variants diff (where I see two trees side by side, although I haven't used that for a while).

Which bring me to the possibility of using Labels - something along the lines of Variants for Scroll docs... A system of labels to work along your old/new/modfied... then using Databases...

Or perhaps use labels, use Comala Publishing or Space Sync for Confluence to create 'snapshots' in the form of space...

(I'll stop talking :) )


author: Johanna Linaker _K15t_
body: Hi [@Tommy Sanddal Poulsen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5421908) ,

I'm Johanna from K15t, the team behind Scroll Documents. I'm sorry to hear you've encountered challenges with the app. Our support team would be happy to investigate the issues you've described. Feel free to reach out to us via help@k15t.com, then we can investigate further.

Cheers,   
Johanna (K15t)


author: Tommy Sanddal Poulsen
body: Hi Johanna, I'm not sure I encountered any bugs/problems with the app - it may simply be that the functionality I need is not available in the Scroll Documents app.

I need to be able to extract a report of all changed pages (between 2 dates or snapshots) - with the actual compare-differences visualized also.

Would you say that this is available currently from the Scroll Documents app? And in case it is, can you point me in the right direction ;-)


author: Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM
body: Without looking to see if there are any Marketplace add-ons, and there are some great backup and restore add-ons, I would suggest starting to export spaces as CSV on a schedule. Then, you can use standard diff tools to diff the exports.

Not sure if that qualifies as a nice way. Look in the Marketplace for Backup tools.

comments: author: Tommy Sanddal Poulsen
body: Thanks Shawn - that would be a way to go, and I'll definitely look at the 3rd party backup-services.

Preferably the diff should be somehow readable and understandable for a non-techie-reader so my hope are not too high - but I'll give it a go.

Thanks for chipping in


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