Bulk import Word documents as confluence page

[Licenties Lannoo]

Hi

We're looking to start using Confluence to move from a bunch of Word documents to a more central wiki like platform. We have 500+ Word documents that I'd like to import as pages but this would take me all week using the import Word document that only allows one document at a time. Is it possible to bulk import multiple Word documents as a page? I'm not looking to have them as attachments. 

Thank you.

[Charles Andrus]

The multi-file import plugin performs bulk importing of word documents now: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1223239

[Neethu Varghese]

I've tried it, but was not able to install at all!!

[skazar]

Hello @Licenties Lannoo   ,
This subject still hasn't become really old, so I've let myself to describe my way to solve the problem;

I had same issue and I found a solution - but it may be a little complex:

1. webDAV - it gives feature of creating multiple pages at once (with attachments in it, if u like. In this case: you do :) )
2. custom script: converting files to confluence-pages

Ad. 1. webDAV
https://uvacollab.screenstepslive.com/s/help/m/sitetools/l/611578-how-do-i-set-up-webdav-for-windows-10-or-8
https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-a-webdav-client-to-work-with-pages-200704169.html

Ad. 2. script
I have created JS-script (node.js app, if you like), which takes all the files you want import to Confluence and convert it to confluence-proper catalogs-structure.
All you need to do later is to move that catalog to Confluence via webDAV (which for me takes something around 5-20 secondss per original file) and the work is done.

In new pages created this way, The script adds view-word-macro, which displays attached word file directly - in the page via browser. (This macro lets you to edit attached file directly in microsoft-word as well)

Described solution doesn`t touch the issue of deciding for every single page if it should be imported as one or many-self-nested pages. Every file is imported as one. 
Script can be easily adjusted for handling files with duplicated file/page-name, as well.

[Steve M]

Can you share your JS-script?

[skazar]

Sure,
https://github.com/Sazar24/confluence-docs-importer

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @Licenties Lannoo,

I'm not aware of a bulk import for word documents but I also don't think, that it would make sense. 

For every document, you have to decide whether it makes sense to import the document as one single page or create subpages by chapter. Some docs are very small, others so big that you'll get a very long page which is hard to read.

Also, you might get into trouble with same-named pages by bulk importing docs. 

Importing Word documents is a great feature, but from my experience, you'll always have to look at the new pages, add some kind of navigational structure or at least a table of contents or a child-macro to the new pages. So, I would do that one by one.