Phonemos User Guide

Confluence Data Center: feature and macro compatibility

Phonemos supports most Confluence functions plus some App functions out of the box.

Feature support classification

  • โœ… full support (either 1:1-like support or with a very similar replacement functionality; might still look a bit different)

  • ๐Ÿ’ก additional features that are not available in Confluence Data Center, unless you use apps or custom code

  • โ„น๏ธ reduced support, similar functionality available, but different user experience

  • ๐Ÿ“Œ support is planned, can be prioritized if needed

  • ๐Ÿšซ not supported at the moment and no plans. Mostly this is because we did not find a good use case for the feature yet, but are open to suggestions. Just Contact us and we will check what we can do.

Migration support classification

  • โš™๏ธ The migration is automated and easy (or no special migration step is required at all)

  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ The migration will require manual steps or migration to an alternative solution

The information is provided on best effort basis. As both products are continuously developed in parallel and may alter their behaviour between versions. If you wanโ€™t to be sure, Contact us or run a test import and verify the information is still accurate.

Confluence high-level features

Confluence Artifact

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Space configuration (Permissions etc.)

โœ… called โ€œtopicโ€ in Phonemos; permissions very similar, other space configuration deviates

๐Ÿ’กPhonemos can be split into multiple sites each with its own customisable landing page;
see Conceptual structure

๐Ÿ’กPhonemos supports a custom menu navigation configuration;
see Configurable menu bar

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ these settings need to be reconfigured manually

Page incl. history

โœ… Page incl. history and visual diff

๐Ÿ’กPhonemos supports multiple language schemes to choose from; this is not possible in Confluence;
see Multi-lingual page versions

๐Ÿ’ก Phonemos supports different page publishing workflows;
see Page publishing workflow

โš™๏ธ automatic

Labels

โœ…

โš™๏ธ automatic

Page properties

โœ… with Phonemos Metadata

๐Ÿ’กMetadata in Phonemos is structured, not just free text

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ structured meta data needs to be set up, then content can be migrated โš™๏ธ automatic

Team Calendars

โ„น๏ธ Gantt charts can be used to visualise events on a timeline. Currently no additional calendar-integration planned.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ currently needs an alternative solution as there is no out-of-the-box support

Page templates

โœ… supported with template folders

๐Ÿ’กPhonemos supports entire page trees as template, not just single pages

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual transfer required

Embedded multimedia content (PDF, Office files, videos)

ย 

โœ… most content that Confluence supports is supported as well

๐Ÿ’กPhonemos will automatically OCR pictures and make pictures searchable; this is not possible in Confluence

โœ… sometimes some sizing issues when Confluence does not save sizing information, but has different defaults

User macros

โ„น๏ธ no direct support, but we may have alternative scripting and automation features
see APIs, extensibility & automation

๐Ÿ’ก Phonemos comes with a built-in Scripting engine for automations

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ need rewriting

Personal space

โœ… personal note areas in Phonemos are always private, if you want them to be accessible to others, make standard topics

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Migration as a standard space possible, pages can then be moved manually into personal note areas if they shall be private

Comments

โœ… called discussions in Phonemos

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ We currently convert them just into text and add them to the end of the page content

Notifications

โœ… support coming with Phonemos Workflows & automation

โš™๏ธ does not need migration

Page attachments

โœ… Phonemos supports both page attachments and as files in dedicated folders;
seeFile Stacks in Phonemos

โš™๏ธ automatic

Confluence Companion (easier way to open office files)

๐Ÿ“Œ proof of concept ready, but not yet a priority in our roadmap

โš™๏ธ no need

Analytics for page views

๐Ÿ“Œ statistical data already collected, but reporting not yet a priority in our roadmap

โš™๏ธ no need

Jira links

โœ… supported

โš™๏ธ automatic if the Jira Software Connector is configured

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Confluence third-party plugin support

Confluence Artifact

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

draw.io

โœ… seeEmbed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, โ€ฆ)

โš™๏ธ automatic

Gliffy

โœ… see
Embed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, โ€ฆ)

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs preprocessing, see Convert Gliffy to Drawio

โš™๏ธ afterwards automatic

Balsamiq Mockups

โœ… see
Embed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, โ€ฆ)

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs a manual workaround or migration or use Phonemos along with balsamiq Cloud or Desktop

Easy translator

โœ… see
Multi-lingual page versions and Automatic Translations with Deepl

โš™๏ธ no additional data needs to be migrated

Translations for Scroll Documents

โœ… see
Multi-lingual page versions and Automatic Translations with Deepl

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs manual steps

Stagil Navigation

โœ… see
Configurable menu bar

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be set up manually

Page tree creator

โœ… see
Configuring the create menu and managing templates

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be set up manually with templates

PDF export for pages

โœ… see
and
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ if you had custom CI/CD support in exports, these need to be migrated manually, otherwise no migration needed

Scroll Viewport

โœ… see
Publication of topics on the web / public portals

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be set up manually

Comala Metadata

โœ… see
Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be migrated manually

Comala Document Management

โ„น๏ธ see
Page publishing workflow

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be migrated manually

Community Forums

๐Ÿ“Œ see
Q&A / Discussion forums

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be migrated manually

Scroll Word Exporter

โœ… see
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ templates need to be set up manually

Scroll PDF Exporter

โœ… see
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ templates need to be set up manually

Scroll HTML Exporter

โœ… see
and
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ templates need to be set up manually

Scroll Documents

โœ… partial support added with Workflows for Phonemos

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs to be set up manually

Youtrack issue integration

โœ… supported

โš™๏ธ automatic if the Youtrack Connector is configured

Is an App missing? Contact us

Detailed macro support

If you want to check out what macros are in use in your system, check out the macro usage report (under /admin/pluginusage.action) that shows which macro is used on how many pages.

Please note that we have only included a selection of the macros here. If you donโ€™t find, what you are looking for or if you think, something we donโ€™t support yet definitely needs to be supported, Contact us.

Built-in macros

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Basic macros

confluence-information-plugin

  • info

  • note

  • warning

  • tip

Box with text

ย 

โœ…

Not all content is supported inside, but for most practical uses it looks identical.

โš™๏ธ automatic

Table of Contents Plugin

  • toc

List of all headings inside a page

ย 

โœ…

No need to support as a special widget as we heve a table of contents feature built into the sidebar.

โš™๏ธ no migration needed

Layout Macros

  • column

  • section

Two or three column layouts

ย 

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • Panel

Just a border around something.

ย 

โœ…

Only with an icon (see info, note, warning, tip)

Not all content is supported, but for most practical uses it looks identical.

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • Anchor

A place inside a page where you can hyperlink to.

โ„น๏ธ

Headers are automatically anchors. A custom anchor macro is not planned currently.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

  • noformat

Box with preformatted content (fixed-width font)

ย 

โœ…

Supported via the code macro when you donโ€™t select a language.

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • loremipsum

Some Placeholder Text

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

Not supported, as itโ€™s just some Placeholder text. The user can just copy it from a lorem generator webpage.

-

Confluence Advanced Macros

ย 

  • children

List of child pages

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • excerpt

Content will be used a the page summary

๐Ÿšซ

Not supported

-

  • excerpt-include

Includes the content of the excerpt macro of another page

๐Ÿšซ

Not supported and not yet planned as we did not yet find a use case for it.

-

  • contentbylabel

List of pages selected that have a given label

ย 

โœ…

with the Object List widget, see Dynamic content and embeddable widgets

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

  • recently-updated

List of recently updated pages

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • include

Includes the full content of another page.

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • favpages

List of the current users favorite pages

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

No functionality to favorite pages

-

  • gallery

All images attached to the pages displayed.

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

The user can use the layout component to emulate the functionality. It was rarely used.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

  • blog-posts

List of Blog Post-type pages for a space, optionally with excerpts.

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

Announcement channels

โš™๏ธ automatic by importing the old blog pages for archiving

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ no automatic migration into an announcement channel

  • popular-labels

List of the most popular labels in the instance

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

We have not come across a good use case for it.

-

  • navmap

โ€œBoardโ€ of pages that have a certain label

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

We have not come across a good use case for it.

-

  • list-labels

Renders the list of all labels or labels for a specific space.

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

We have not come across a good use case for it.

-

  • related-labels

List of labels that other pages having the same labels as this page also have.

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

We have not come across a good use case for it.

-

Confluence File Macro

  • view-file

In-page rendering of a supported file (PDF)

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

Page Tree Plugin

ย 

  • pagetree

Baumansicht von Unterseiten

ย 

โœ…

Supported for current page, page trees with different roots are on the roadmap.

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • pagetreesearch

Suchfeld fรผr Suche unterhalb der aktuellen Seite

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

No macro, but search can be restricted to a topic, see Search & find content

-

Confluence Live Search Macros Plugin

  • livesearch

Search box inside a confluence page

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

No macro, but search can be restricted to a topic, see Search & find content

-

Code Macro Plugin

  • code

Source Code Fragment

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

Wiki Markup Plugin

  • unmigrated-inline-wiki-markup

  • unmigrated-wiki-markup

not available from the UI. Used for content from very old confluence version.

๐Ÿšซ

Convert in confluence to regular content.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual preprocessing

Status Macro

  • status

Display of a user defined text with a background

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

Confluence Expand Macro

  • expand

Collapsible section

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

Office Connector plugin

  • viewpdf

  • viewxls

  • viewppt

  • viewdoc

In-page view of the content of the file (full view)

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

Jira Plugin

ย 

  • Jira (single issue)

Jira Issue title and status

ย 

โœ…

Fully supported

โš™๏ธ automatic

  • jira (table config)

Table view of Jira issues (JQL filter)

ย 

โœ…

Full support

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs manual step to configure Data Table, see Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

  • jira-chart

A pie chart built from a JQL

๐Ÿ“Œ

Coming soon, throgh general purpose charting on metadata

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs manual configuraiton

User Lister

  • userlister

List of Confluence Users that are members of a certain group

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

Not planned at the moment. Users can be mentioned individually

-

Confluence Attachments Plugin

  • attachments

List of all attachments on a page

ย 

โœ…

Full support, but consider using File Stacks in Phonemos instead of page attachments

โš™๏ธ automatic

Profile Macro

  • profile

Displays picture, name and email of a user

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

Not yet planned, but information would be available if thereโ€™s a good use case.

-

Page Properties Macros-Plugin

  • details

Letโ€™s the user define metadata about a page. It works by adding a table such as the following below it

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

Metadata is much better supported with additional features (structured instead of free text)

โš™๏ธ automatic, once mapping is set up

Confluence Inline Tasks

  • tasks-report-macro

List of task in a certain context

ย 

โœ…

Supported

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

Confluence Roadmap Planner

  • roadmap

Simple bar charts for roadmaps

ย 

๐Ÿ“Œ

Gantt chart is coming soon

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

Confluence Core Macros

  • Multimedia

Embedded video/audio

โœ…

Supported, but some degradation in layout (width/height etc) might occur as original scaling cannot be retained in all cases

โš™๏ธ automatic

Confluence Create Content Plugin

  • create-from-template

Button that will create a subpage based on a defined template

ย 

โœ…

Supported

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual, as template needs manual migration

Confluence Contributors Plugin

  • contributors

List of contributors to a spaces

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

Not planned, as we do not see a good use case for it yet.

-

Confluence Content Report Plugin

  • content-report-table

List of pages with a certain label

ย 

โœ…

Much better supported with our data tables, see Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ needs manual configuration

Dashboard Macro

  • recently-updated-dashboard

View of all recently updated pages in certain places

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

Not exactly like that, but the recently-updated is basically the same.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

Profile Picture

  • profile picture

Displays the profile picture of a user

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

Not planned at the moment, since we donโ€™t see a good use case for it

-

chart-plugin

  • chart

ย 

๐Ÿ“Œ

Coming soon

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

ย 

Detailed third party app macro support

Translations for Confluence (formerly Language Macros)

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Translations for Confluence (formerly Language Macros)

  • german

  • english

  • french

  • โ€ฆ

Text in multiple languages

โ„น๏ธ

Phonemos translation features are much more powerful, see Multi-lingual page versions and Automatic Translations with Deepl

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

ย 

Linchpin

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Linchpin Theme

  • linchpin-teaser-macro

Marketplace listing

๐Ÿšซ

-

  • filtered-spaces-list

๐Ÿ“Œ

Coming soon as we are adding metadata to topics.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

  • linchpin-layout-box-macro

๐Ÿšซ

-

Linchpin User Profiles - Content Responsibility

  • responsible-person-macro

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

Can usually be done with metadata fields, see Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

  • people-search-list

  • profile

  • my-contacts-macro

  • structure-chart-macro

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

-

Linchpin Events

  • upcoming-events

  • join-event

Marketplace listing

๐Ÿšซ

-

Linchpin Enterprise News

  • corporate-news-feed

  • cover-stories

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

Supported through Announcement channels

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

Linchpin Launchpad

  • apps

Marketplace listing

โœ…

not needed, support through
Configurable menu bar

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

ย 

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Navitabs - Tabs for Confluence

  • localtab

  • localtabgroup

  • navitabs

  • childtabs

ย 

๐Ÿšซ

-

ย 

Comala Document Management

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Comala Document Management

  • get-metadata

  • document-tasks-report

ย 

โ„น๏ธ

see Manage structured metadata

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

ย 

MultiExcerpt

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

MultiExcerpt4

  • multiexcerpt

  • multiexcerpt-include

Marketplace listing

โ„น๏ธ

while we have no 1:1 support, this is very often used in use cases, where we can use our
Manage structured metadata

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ manual

ย 

ย