Phonemos User Guide

Confluence Data Center: feature and macro compatibility

Phonemos supports most Confluence functions plus some App functions out of the box.

  • ✅ full support (either 1:1-like support or with a very similar replacement function) of the feature in Phonemos

  • ℹ️ partial support or the feature is supported but in a different way

  • 📌 planned to be supported in the future

  • 🛠️ can be implemented on request

  • 🚫 not supported

Migration support classification

  • ✅ The migration is automated

  • ⚙️ The migration is automated, but requires manual preparation or postprocessing

  • 🛠️ The migration requires manual effort

  • 🚫 Migration not supported (data will be lost during migration)

The information is provided on best effort basis. As both products are continuously developed, some information may be outdated. Please contact us if you find any inaccuracies.

Confluence high-level features

Confluence Artifact

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Space configuration (name, description, logo)

Pages (hierarchy, text, embedded images, attachments)

Blog posts

✅ see
Announcement channels

✅ automatic by importing the old blog pages for archiving, no automatic migration into an announcement channel

User-defined page metadata (page properties)

✅ see
Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

⚙️ automatic once meta data configuration and mapping is set up

Space permissions

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

Page restrictions

✅ see Zones: Protected folders

🛠️ needs to be migrated manually

Page templates

🛠️ needs to be set up manually (templates are not migrated automatically from Confluence)

Page versioning / history

Inline comments

✅ as inline text

Page comments

✅ as inline text

Page watches / notifications

🚫 not migrated

Global search

User profiles

Authentication (LDAP / SSO / SAML)

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

CI/CD Branding (white labeling)

✅ see Custom Export Templates (CI/CD)

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

Space archive / export

✅ see Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

✅ not required

 

Confluence third-party plugin support

Confluence Artifact

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

draw.io

✅ seeEmbed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, …)

Gliffy

✅ see
Embed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, …)

⚙️ needs preprocessing, see Convert Gliffy to Drawio, afterwards automatic

Balsamiq Mockups

✅ see
Embed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, …)

🛠️ needs a manual workaround or migration or use Phonemos along with balsamiq Cloud or Desktop

Easy translator

✅ see
Multi-lingual page versions and Automatic Translations with Deepl

✅ no additional data needs to be migrated

Translations for Scroll Documents

✅ see
Multi-lingual page versions and Automatic Translations with Deepl

🛠️ needs manual steps

Stagil Navigation

✅ see
Configurable menu bar

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

Page tree creator

✅ see
Configuring the create menu and managing templates

🛠️ needs to be set up manually with templates

PDF export for pages

✅ see
and
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

🛠️ if you had custom CI/CD support in exports, these need to be migrated manually, otherwise no migration needed

Scroll Viewport

✅ see
Publication of topics on the web / public portals

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

Comala Metadata

✅ see
Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

🛠️ needs to be migrated manually

Comala Document Management

ℹ️ see
Page publishing workflow

🛠️ needs to be migrated manually

Community Forums

📌 see
Q&A / Discussion forums

🛠️ needs to be migrated manually

Scroll Word Exporter

✅ see
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

🛠️ templates need to be set up manually

Scroll PDF Exporter

✅ see
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

🛠️ templates need to be set up manually

Scroll HTML Exporter

✅ see
and
Export page tree to PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown, HTML and more

🛠️ templates need to be set up manually

Scroll ImageMap

✅ can be implemented with Embed diagrams (BPMN, UML, Archimate, Floorplans, Mockups, …)

🛠️ needs manual set up

Scroll Documents

✅ partial support added with Workflows for Phonemos

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

Youtrack issue integration

✅ automatic if the Jira Software Connector is configured

Jira issue integration

✅ automatic if the Youtrack Connector is confi

Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets (Stiltsoft)

✅ Phonemos structured Data Tables, metadata and diagrams cover most use cases

🛠️ need conversion from free text tables into structured metadata tables

Adaptavist ScriptRunner for Confluence

✅ Phonemos has a built-in automation/scripting engine and REST API.

🛠️ evaluate each ScriptRunner macro individually — many may not be needed at all in Phonemos.

Mosaic (Adaptavist)

ℹ️ partial support

🛠️ Pages built with Mosaic (div, style, auitabs, iframe, etc.) need manual reconstruction using Phonemos layout sections, panels, and card grids.

Excellentable

🚫

🛠️

Numbered Headings

🚫

Advanced Tables for Confluence (Appfire)

✅ Phonemos structured Data Tables, metadata and diagrams cover most use cases

🛠️

Forms for Confluence (Kolekti)

ℹ️ partial support with Phonemos forms

🛠️

Survey and Vote Macros (Appfire)

🚫

🛠️

PlantUML for Confluence

Mermaid

BPMN Modeler Enterprise (viadee)

🛠️ Export viadee data as standard BPMN XML and reimport.

ADONIS Process Manager

ℹ️ Integration possible on request

🛠️

LeanIX Integration

🚫

🛠️

Zephyr Scale Reporting

🚫

🛠️

Is an App missing? Contact us

Detailed macro support

Please note that we have only included a selection of the macros here. If you don't see a macro listed here, it probably means we haven't reviewed it yet. You can request a review by contacting us.

Built-in macros

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Basic macros

 

 

 

  • content-by-label

  • children

  • recently-updated

  • listlabels

Macro for listing pages by label, or children pages

✅ see Dynamic content and embeddable widgets

⚙️ automatic layout, but content may need manual adjustments

  • toc

  • toc-zone

Table of contents for page or zone

✅ no migration needed

  • column

  • section

  • layout

Columns / Sections layout

  • panel

  • tip

  • note

  • info

  • warning

Colored info panel

  • code

Code block

  • status

Colored status badge

  • expand

Expand/Collapse macro

  • anchor

Create anchor for headings

  • include

Include the content of another page

  • excerpt

Content will be used a the page summary

📌

Planned via named sections + include content widget. AI-assisted page summaries are also an alternative for many use cases.

-

  • excerpt-include

Includes the content of the excerpt macro of another page

📌

Planned via named sections + include content widget.

-

  • pagetree

Renders a navigable tree of pages under a root

Dynamic content and embeddable widgets

⚙️ automatic layout, but content may need manual adjustments

  • page-index

Page index alphabetically sorted, per letter

🚫

🚫 not migrated

  • search

Embedded search widget

✅ supported with global search

🛠️

  • user-list

  • profile

User/Group macros

🚫

🚫 not migrated

  • roadmap

Roadmap planner

🚫

🚫 not migrated

  • chart

Charts based on data in a wiki table

🚫 not migrated

  • gallery

Image gallery

🛠️

  • iframe

Embeds external content in an iframe

  • html

Raw HTML block

🚫

🚫 not migrated

  • html-include

HTML include macro

🚫

🚫 not migrated

  • jira

Jira issues integration

⚙️ automatic if the Jira Software Connector is configured

  • jiraissues

Jira issues list

⚙️ automatic if the Jira Software Connector is configured

  • widget

Embeds content from supported sites (YouTube, Twitter, etc.)

🚫

  • spaces-list

Lists all visible spaces/topics

🛠️

  • page-properties

  • page-properties-report

Tabular metadata shown inline on page / report that aggregates them

✅ see
Metadata in Phonemos: Structure and Filter

⚙️ automatic once metadata configuration is set up and mapped

  • create-from-template

Button to create a page from a specific template

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

  • create-space-button

Button to create a space from a blueprint

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

  • recently-updated-dashboard

Recently updated pages on the dashboard

  • task-report

Report of task items on a page

  • contributors

  • contributors-summary

List of users who contributed to a page

🚫

🚫 not migrated

  • attachments

List of attachments on the page

  • info-macro

Info

  • noformat

Unformatted block of text

  • spaces

Embeds specific spaces on a page

🛠️ needs to be set up manually

  • livesearch

Live search

🚫

🚫

  • navmap

Navigation map

🚫

🚫

  • pagetreesearch

Page tree search

🚫

🚫

  • favorite-pages

Favorite pages

🚫

🚫

  • excerpt-include (via multiexcerpt)

Include specific named section from another page

📌

🚫

 

Detailed third party app macro support

Translations for Confluence (formerly Language Macros)

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Translations for Confluence (formerly Language Macros)

  • language

  • language-selector

Create separate language versions of one page. The language-selector renders a language switcher.

✅ Phonemos supports Multi-lingual page versions

(a 1:1 replacement is available)

🛠️ needs manual steps (see Automatic Translations with Deepl)

 

Linchpin

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Linchpin Theme

  • linchpin-theme-space-news-blog-posts

  • linchpin-theme-subspaces

  • linchpin-userhome-myapps

  • linchpin-theme-tab

Custom intranet theme with special macros for social features (news feed, sub-spaces)

ℹ️ Phonemos provides a custom theme feature but the specific macros are not directly replaceable.

🛠️ needs manual work

Linchpin Essentials

  • linchpin-essentials-teaser

  • linchpin-essentials-news

  • linchpin-essentials-topic-news

Teaser and news section for intranet pages

ℹ️ Phonemos card grids and section layouts can be used as an alternative

🛠️ needs manual work

 

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Navitabs - Tabs for Confluence

  • localtab

  • localtabgroup

  • navitabs

  • childtabs

 

🛠️

🛠️

Tab navigation — simple functionality, can be implemented on request.

 

Comala Document Management

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

Comala Document Management

  • comalatech-comala-workflows-workflow

  • comalatech-comala-workflows-approval

  • comalatech-comala-workflows-transition-button

Adds a document management workflow to pages

✅ see
Page publishing workflow

🛠️ needs manual work

 

MultiExcerpt

Name

What is It?

Phonemos Feature Support

Phonemos Migration Support

MultiExcerpt

  • multiexcerpt

  • multiexcerpt-include

Named excerpt that can be included in other pages

⚙️ automatic