On 4/14/2016 12:57 PM, Cassandra Targett wrote: > Unfortunately, Confluence makes that pretty impossible without some > super-human efforts*. Each page has a history, but the only snapshot > that exists of the full pre-6.0 state is the PDF, and it would be > nearly impossible to recreate the 5.5 version from that in order to > make a 5.6. > > *With direct access to the (mySQL, I assume) backend database, one > could theoretically reconstruct the prior versions, but suspect it > would be a likely thankless and painful task that would be more work > than it's worth.
Is the conversion to PDF done by something external, or by Confluence itself? If it's done by Confluence, then I would think it would be possible for them to create a "Export from historical date" feature. I would not expect that to be a trivial implementation, but *possible* ... and we should open an issue in their Jira. If it's an external tool, it would probably still be possible, but the dev team might need to learn a bunch of things that the Atlassian developers already know. Since there's no ability to create a historical PDF right now, a "5.6 addendum" PDF that contains changes since 5.5 sounds like the reasonable thing to do. Hopefully there would not be much in the way of changes that require documentation updates. Thanks, Shawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
