Child Item preview lacks ... to indicate there is more info

[Arno Wolthers]

When you use the child item preview functionality Confluence cloud shows the child page titles and the top of the child page. Frequently it shows the full first line/paragraph. Such lines typically end with a dot. A reader could mistake the preview as the entire content. Please add ... (including link to the child page) at the end of the preview when there is more info available. Similar to a Google search engine preview result.

[Germán Morales _ Hiera]

Hi @Arno Wolthers , that's a fair UX gap. The preview you're describing is the Children Display macro with Include excerpts, and you're right that it shows the top of the child page with no truncation marker, so a first line that ends in a full stop can read as the whole thing.

The catch is that the Community Q&A isn't where Atlassian collects product ideas, so a request posted here won't reach the team. Put it on the public suggestions tracker instead, the Confluence Cloud project (CONFCLOUD), where it can gather votes and watchers and the product team actually triages it. It's worth a quick search there first in case someone has already raised the same idea, the ellipsis plus a read-more link, so you can vote on that rather than file a duplicate. You can search or create it here: Confluence Cloud suggestions.

[Arno Wolthers]

Thank you for the reply.

I have searched the database but did not find a similar report. So I tried to Create a new issue but the CONFCLOUD project is not available in the list of roughly 10 projects. :-(

[Germán Morales _ Hiera]

Ah, that part is on me. Atlassian's public tracker deliberately leaves Confluence Cloud out of the project picker when you hit Create, so you genuinely can't open a new CONFCLOUD issue there. It's a known limitation, confirmed by Atlassian, not something you're doing wrong. That project is still useful for searching, voting and watching existing suggestions, just not for raising a new one.

The channel Atlassian actually points to for Confluence Cloud ideas is in-product: the Help menu in Confluence, then Give feedback. That's where your ellipsis-and-read-more idea should go to reach the Confluence team. I'll be straight about the downside, feedback sent that way isn't publicly trackable, you get an email acknowledgement but no issue link or vote count. And if you're on an Enterprise plan, your site admin can raise it through Atlassian enterprise support, which gives a more traceable path.