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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
7 Replies
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
Thanks a lot. That is exactly what I needed
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
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?
- 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!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)Every company that I've worked for over the last few decades that has tried to migrate to SharePoint has met with complete failure. SharePoint may have its place, but it is NOT a wiki or even friendly enough to hack in to look like a wiki without significant effort. Many companies think they will save money going to a single platform, but unfortunately it will take so much extra work that it will end up costing more in man hours. The default use of document libraries is just like going back in time a couple of decades and using a file share. Being able to simply add a new page, paste or type in text and save is what makes wikis so much easier and more productive.
