Alternative to Metadata for Confluence app

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Hello Confluence users/admins,

It's not often that I ask a direct question regarding an app but I'd like to see what everyone's experience is regarding a feature that this app provides.

I have a client that currently uses the "Metadata for Confluence"-app (on DC) from Communardo Products GmbH.

In the journey moving them to Cloud the app has a large gap between their DC and Cloud app. Missing functionalities, difficult migration path,..

So I'm wondering, what are your experiences regarding other aps or native functionalities that could replace the functionalities of this app?

To include metadata on pages and visualize it are there better ones out there or is this something I could easily fix with native functionality?

Any ideas/tips would be welcomed!

[Elena_Communardo Products]

Hello @Dirk Ronsmans 

thanks a lot for sharing your experience and for raising this important question! We’re sorry to hear that your client is facing challenges with the Cloud version of Metadata for Confluence.

To better understand the specific gaps and migration difficulties, I’d like to invite you to get in touch with our support team — they’ll be happy to look into the case together with you: Communardo App Support - Jira Service Management

In addition, if you’d like to discuss your client’s requirements and possible solutions more directly, you can also book a call with our Product Owner Juela Zeneli here: Booking A Call With Juela 

We’d really appreciate your feedback, as it helps us continuously improve our Cloud offering. Looking forward to your message!

Best regards,

Elena

[Robert DaSilva]

Hey @Dirk Ronsmans ,

I haven't used Metadata for Confluence before. Are you able to outline some of the functionality you or your client are looking to retain?

After a brief look at that app, it seems that a number of features could be replicated with the Page Properties default functionality in Confluence. This would require the use of more strict Templates to ensure the correct fields are populated, with the correct spelling and such. However, I've used the default Page Properties feature extensively and it allows for some decent reporting.

Any additional details on the requirements would be helpful with finding replacement apps.

Cheers,

Robert