Copy a page with excerpt's content expanded (deep copy)

[Christoph Möbius]

I'd like to build up modularized checklists where more specific ones include more general ones via excerpt.

The idea is that if a team needs to walk through a checklist they can make a copy of the most specific checklist to their particular area of the Wiki and tick off each entry. The original content of the included pages must not be affected.

In order for that to work there needs to be some sort of deep copy that expands all excerpts and includes their content in the copy rather than just the macro.

I am afraid there is no feature like that available, but I rather ask.

I see there was a similar question a while ago: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/automate-copy-of-excerpt-content/qaq-p/599585

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

That's not how Confluence should be used, so there's no way to do this.  The whole point of include and excerpts is to include content from other places dynamically.

The best way to achieve what you are asking for is to stop copying pages, and use templates instead. 

Open up the page you want to reuse and select all the content, then hit "copy".  Go to the space tools, or global templates and add a new template.  Paste the copied content into it, then edit it  to suit.

If you copied from a page in read mode, then you won't have any macros in the template, the whole thing will be independent text and you may want to add some back in.

If you copied from a page in edit mode, then it will have all the macro definition - you'll need to replace them with placeholders that tell people they need to put stuff in there instead of taking content from elsewhere.