Conversion with Duplicate Page Titles

This article prepares you for what happens to duplicate page titles when converting from Scroll Versions to Scroll Documents.

How Duplicate Page Titles Are Converted

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With Scroll Versions Duplicate page title feature, you can create pages with the same page title by disconnecting the title from the page's URL. When you convert to Scroll Documents, these duplicate page titles are converted to Scroll Page Titles, but they work a bit differently to the Duplicate page title in Scroll Versions.

Here's what you need to know:

• Confluence needs unique titles: Confluence requires each page within the same space to have a unique title. So, after converting to Scroll Documents, Confluence will add numbers to the end of some duplicate titles to keep them unique.

• Your duplicate titles are still useful! Scroll Documents converts those duplicate titles into Scroll Page Titles, which will be used when exporting offline assets with with our Scroll Exporters or when you publish with Scroll Viewport.

So, while you can still use duplicate titles – as Scroll Page Titles – for exports and Viewport content, Confluence will make the page titles unique within Confluence by adding numbers where necessary.

For example, let's consider a page tree where all three child pages have the same page title (achieved through the Scroll Versions duplicate page title feature) in the same space. After converting to Scroll Documents, the first three child pages will retain their page titles (as they were created first), while the last three will have a number added to them:

The additional numbers can be manually removed after the migration, but it is also possible to address this before migrating to Scroll Documents. For more information, see: Prevent Numbered Page Titles in Duplicate Page Title Conversion

Need Duplicate Page Titles in the Same Confluence Space?

If you still wish to work with duplicate page titles within the same space after converting to Scroll Documents, you can utilize Scroll Documents version prefix. This enables you to differentiate pages with similar titles by adding a prefix to the version. To learn more about this feature, we recommend reading the article: Edit Version Prefix

Want to Migrate Duplicate Page Titles to Cloud Without Scroll Documents?

Do you have spaces that only use Scroll Versions' Duplicate page title feature? You can migrate those spaces to Confluence Cloud without converting them to Scroll Documents.

Here's how:

1. Make sure you have Scroll Versions 4.6.0 or later installed.

2. Migrate the space as a normal Confluence space using Atlassian’s Migration Assistant.

Your duplicate page titles will be saved as Scroll Page Titles in Confluence Cloud. This means:

• If you're publishing to Scroll Viewport or exporting with Scroll Exporter apps, the Scroll Page Titles will be used.

• You'll still see numbers added to the end of duplicate page titles within Confluence Cloud.

To edit Scroll Page Titles after migration, install the Scroll Exporter Extensions app.