If I disable any plugin in Confluence, do we lose the data?

[Sourav Mallick]

Suppose I have some plugins installed in Confluence. If I disable any plugin do we lose the data?

[Radek Dostál]

There is no data removal, the "beans" (it's not a totally accurate term but suffices) that the plugin provides simply get disabled. Any stored data that the plugin may use, such as any database tables, remains intact, so that you can re-enable the app in the future if you wish to resume it.

This goes hand in hand with safe mode and jvm args to temporarily disable plugins for various reasons, troubleshooting, performance, you name it.

So unless the plugin specifically was made to remove any data, it won't. In case the plugin provides macros, you will simply begin seeing "unknown macro" instead, and if you re-enable it, the macro will resume to work.

[Sourav Mallick]

So if we migrate the data via the Cloud Migration Assistant into the cloud, and in the cloud the relevant plugin is not available, how will it behave? Will it still show as "Unknown Macro" in the cloud, and when the plugin is installed in the cloud will it behave normally again?

[Radek Dostál]

That's a different topic entirely, and I have no idea how cloud works. This page should cover it though: https://support.atlassian.com/migration/docs/assess-apps-with-the-confluence-cloud-migration-assistant

So you can run the assessment and see if your app is supported.

I do suspect the plugin data will in fact get removed during the import, if the app is not on Cloud. I don't know, I've never done it, all I know is the cloud wizard does stuff and remaps data to make it fit into cloud, so it potentially might remove it if the app is not there.

[CHINNAMUTHEVISAI.SATYANARAYANASHARMA]

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