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Playford
Copper Contributor
Feb 08, 2021

Setting up a wiki same as Confluence

Good afternoon,

 

I'm trying to re-create all of our tech documents in sharepoint so we can centralise to office 365.

 

I've tried many different way but I think the only way maybe a news style site, but then I have the issue of navigation so have looked into metadata navigation. But none of this seem to do something confluence makes so easy.

 

What would you recommend?

 

Many Thanks

Mark

confluence
SharePoint Online
Wiki
  • mr_w1nst0n's avatar
    mr_w1nst0n
    Iron Contributor
    May 13, 2022

    Playford I'm 100% agreed with RobElliott.

     

    My suggestion is to use a complete different approach:

    You may try using OneNote for Wiki Pages and store the OneNote notebook (file) on SharePoint in order to centralize the data

    • LeilaSol's avatar
      LeilaSol
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 14, 2024

      I'm planning to do so, but faced this issue in my notebooks, I can't tag people or add a date (not just type it, but the way you select from a calendar (as in confluence pages)) for MoMs in the notebooks. Any idea?

  • Bruce_FR's avatar
    Bruce_FR
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 14, 2024

     

    Hi Playford

    I know my answer may come late, as LeilaSol  asked recenntly, it may interest someone :)

    Maybe what you are looking for is not SharePoint, nor OneNote but Loop :)

    - Out of the box Page navigation, hierarchy and Tree :)

    - Easy to update and collaborate :)

    - Date fields with calendar (type /date or type directly a date, it should propose to convert it in date field when clicking on it

     

    One address : https://loop.cloud.microsoft/

     

    I hope it will help !

     

    Bruce

     

     

    • LeilaSol's avatar
      LeilaSol
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 14, 2024

      Thanks a lot. That is exactly what I needed 

       

  • GianGian's avatar
    GianGian
    Copper Contributor
    May 12, 2022
    I have the same question. How can we migrate from confluence to "something similar" in share point?
    Missing features are:
    - page navigation
    - page hierarchy
    - dispaly page tree inside a page
    - among many others...

    Please help!
    • RobElliott's avatar
      RobElliott
      Silver Contributor
      May 12, 2022

      GianGian The wiki features that came with earlier versions of SharePoint were never very good and were a long way behind professional wiki products like Confluence, Wikidot, Wikimedia etc. Other than a very labour-intensive manual build using quick links buttons (which have to be created on each page) and perhaps a manual navigation approach using perhaps a list web part, there is really nothing you can do to replicate in SharePoint Online the features of Confluence.

       

      Rob
      Los Gallardos
      Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

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