Migrating Content from Sakai

To migrate content from Sakai (Old Courseworks), we recommend you use WebDAV. WebDAV is a protocol that allows a user to view and modify web content from their desktop environment. What this means in our case is that you can essentially view the files stored in Sakai as if they were in a network drive on your computer. In this process, you'll connect to your existing Sakai site via WebDav, then connect to your new Confluence Space via WebDav, then you'll drag the files from the Sakai folder to the Confluence folder. For each folder that is copied from Sakai, a corresponding page will be created. Each file in the folder will be stored as an attachment on the new page that is created. For more information about how attachments work, please see our Files section in this documentation.

Connecting to Sakai via WebDAV

1. Log in to your Courseworks account at courseworks.columbia.edu
2. Select My Projects
3. Find the Project Site you are looking to migrate in the list of Sites
4. Click Files & Resources
5. Click the Upload-Download Multiple Resources button at the top of the page
6. Follow the instructions to connect via WebDAV. You'll be able to select your operating system for specific instructions
7. When prompted for your username and password, use your UNI and UNI Password
8. Once you've done this, you should see a folder in your computer's file browser that corresponds with the data stored in your Sakai site

Connecting to Confluence via WebDAV

1. Using the same instructions from the Sakai WebDAV steps above, connect to the following URL via webDAV:
   https://confluence.columbia.edu/confluence/plugins/servlet/confluence/default
2. When prompted for your username and password, use your UNI and the separate password we provided to you (if you don't know this, please email us at confluence-admin@columbia.edu)
3. Two folders will appear, Global and Personal - open the Global folder
4. Find the folder specific to your Space Key and open it
5. Open the folder inside that has your Space Name and the word Home

Migrating Content

Now that you have both sites connected via WebDAV, you can simply drag the contents of your Sakai Site to the Confluence folder we just opened.

Working with files after migrating

As we discussed in training, Confluence is not built to be a file repository. As such, files are stored as attachments on pages rather than in folders and subfolders. You'll notice after migrating that the files are not displayed on the page by default. To remedy this, you can go to a page which has attachments and add the Attachments Macro to the page. This will allow you to interface with the files as if they were in a folder. If you prefer, you can use Links to the files instead of using the Attachments Macro, but you will have to add the links individually rather than simply adding the macro once.

Another difference is that you will not see files and subfolders listed together within a page. Instead, you'll see the files attached to the page itself and any subpages (subfolders) will be shown in the sidebar.

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