The Conversion Path

In this article, you’ll learn:

How the transition from Scroll Versions or Scroll Translations to Scroll Documents works.
What exactly will be converted during this process.

The Conversion

If you have Scroll Versions or Scroll Translations installed, there's a handy conversion tool available for space admins in any Scroll managed space.

Update to the latest version

We’re constantly updating the conversion tool, so we recommend updating to the latest available version of Scroll Versions and Translations before starting a conversion.

The conversion does not affect your original content

During the conversion, a copy of your Scroll Versions or Scroll Translations managed space is created. The new space is then managed by Scroll Documents. This means you can run a test conversion at any time without affecting your original content.

Once you've created this new Scroll Documents managed space, the process to migrate to Cloud or Data Center differs based on your hosting environment:

Confluence Cloud move: If you're heading to Confluence Cloud, you'll rely on the Atlassian Cloud Migration Assistant to transfer your new Scroll Documents space to the Cloud platform.
Data Center transition: Opting for Data Center?
- If you're moving your content to a new Confluence system, you'll want to: Create an XML export of the new space and then import it into your new system. This ensures a seamless transfer.
- If you're upgrading from a Server system to a single node Data Center and just replace the license key, the process is done after the conversion. No need for extra steps in this scenario.

Below you’ll find a visual that shows what the conversion from Scroll Versions or Scroll Translations to Scroll Documents looks like if you migrate to Confluence Cloud:

What is Converted?

As we mentioned before, the conversion tool creates a copy of your original space. The difference is that this new space is now managed by Scroll Documents. In the table below, you’ll find information around how different content properties, metadata and macros are migrated to the new space:

Please note

The table below only accounts for content and data that's available in spaces which have been converted via the Scroll Versions and Scroll Translations inbuilt conversion tool.

Content	Conversion status	Comments
Page Attachments	Converted	All attachment versions are converted. Creation date of the initial attachment version is converted. Creation date of later versions are dated to the conversion.
Page comments	Converted	Converted comments are dated to the conversion date. Original authors of comment are kept.
Inline comments	Converted	Inline comments can be optionally converted.
Page history	Not converted	Only the latest page revision (Confluence page version) is converted.
Page drafts	Not converted	Only changes that have been published to the pages are converted.
Version information	Converted	Description is converted to the Scroll Documents version description. Release date is appended to the Scroll Documents version description. Creation date is not kept in Scroll Versions, so Scroll Documents' versions are dated to the conversion date.
Space permissions	Converted	The converting user will receive space admin permissions in the created space by default. Optionally, the space permissions can be copied.
Scroll Versions-applied restrictions (“Scroll Roles”)	Not converted	Scroll Roles are not available in Scroll Documents and are therefore not converted. Restrictions applied to space versions are not converted, but can be applied afterwards. Scroll Documents supports View, Edit and Metadata restrictions for individual versions.
Page restrictions	Converted	User-applied page restrictions are converted.
Page Keys	Converted	Page Keys are available in Scroll Documents as Context Keys and are converted.
Duplicate Page Titles	Converted differently	In Scroll Documents, page names can get a prefix of their version name to avoid conflicts between different versions of the same page. If there is a conflict within a version, conversion process will make the following additions: A number increment will be appended to the page title, such as "Introduction 1". The duplicate page title will be added as a Scroll Page Title to the page, and is displayed when viewing the page in the Document reader or Scroll Viewport, or when exporting it using one of the Scroll Exporters.
Workflow states	Not converted	Scroll Documents does not support page workflows, so any workflow states assigned to pages will not be available after the conversion. If you need workflow support, please comment on the respective improvement requests: DOCS-17 DOCS-36
Include Library Spaces	Converted differently	Scroll Documents does not support version-aware content reuse across spaces or documents. However, spaces that reuse content from other versioned spaces can be converted, but the reused pages from other spaces are going to be copied into the document. The result is a versioned document with versioned includes from within the document. Include Library pages reused across multiple versioned spaces will be imported into every Scroll Document and thus will duplicated.
SEO feature	Not converted	Scroll Versions' SEO feature allowed to customize the HTML page titles of the versioned space. The HTML title of pages will revert to Confluence default. We recommend looking into Scroll Viewport to optimize your content for readability and searchability.
Scroll Versions and Translations macros	Converted	Scroll Versions and Scroll Translations macros are either replaced with their native counterparts in Confluence or Scroll Documents, or saved as they are during conversion. This list includes: Include+ → Include Page Excerpt Include+ → Excerpt Include Scroll Page Tree → Page Tree Translations macro (containing all translated content) → Content will be unwrapped and will not be stored within a macro. Translations Ignore macro → Scroll Non-Translatable Translations Ignore Inline macro → Scroll Non-Translatable Inline Conditional Content macro → Scroll Conditional Content

Next Steps

Now it’s time to learn more about Scroll Documents. Please proceed to the following sections: