Edit Permission Inheritance Migration Guide

Owned by Andreas Purde
Last updated: Aug 31, 2023
2 min read

As the migration support must be considered beta as of today - please consider opening a support ticket prior to migration so that we can assists you.

Scope

This guidance explains the migration from Edit Permission Inheritance Server/Data Center to Cloud.

Feature differences

The following notable differences exist:

Element

Major differences

Element

Major differences

UI

While the primary user interface elements to control Edit Permission Inheritance Server/Data Center are in the Restrictions dialog the Edit Permission Inheritance Cloud user interface is accessed via a symbol.

REST interface

Edit Permission Inheritance Cloud does NOT offer a REST interface.

Option to hide the create button

The option to hide the create button does not exist in the Cloud version.

Status after the using Atlassian’s migration assistant

After you have migrated content the edit permissions on each page are as on Server / Data Center. However an inheritance is not yet active with the following consequences:

  1. Changes to the edit permissions of the root page will not be transferred to the child pages.

  2. Pages added under the root page will not inherit the edit permissions of the root page.

Using Edit Permission Inheritance’s migration support

1. Export the inheritances into JSON

You must have Edit Permission Inheritance version 1.5.0 or higher on your Server / Data Center instance

In case you want to export all inheritances please navigate to:

<<your server url>>/rest/editinherit/1.0/getAll

like

https://example.com/rest/editinherit/1.0/getAll

and copy the JSON file you get into the clipboard.

In case you only want to export inheritances from some spaces please navigate to:

<<your server url>>/rest/editinherit/1.0/getAll?spaceKeys=KEY1,KEY2

like

https://example.com/rest/editinherit/1.0/getAll?spaceKey=QM,HR

and copy the JSON file you get into the clipboard.

2. Open the migration support page

Please navigate to

<<your cloud url>>/plugins/servlet/ac/de.edrup.confluence.plugins.edit-inherit/edit-inherit-migration

like

https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/ac/de.edrup.confluence.plugins.edit-inherit/edit-inherit-migration

3. Paste the JSON content and execute the migration

Paste the JSON content into the text area and simulate or execute the migration.

Please note that the execution might take very long. In case you close the window migration will be terminated.

The option “Do not re-apply…” is slightly faster. It assumes that all edit permissions are correct after migration and therefore does not re-apply them.