Feature to update across multiple pages?

[Chris Collins]

Hi

Does Confluence have a feature that allows you to make a change in one place that is updated across multiple pages?

As an example, If there were 10 pages, which all had 3 columns in a table. Say:

ROW 1: Elephant

ROW 2: Giraffe

ROW3: Donkey

And, i wanted to update "Giraffe" across all 10 pages....

Is there a feature that would allow this?

Thanks!

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Chris Collins I would say that @Kris Klima _K15t_ outlines the options well.

We have an app that focuses on bulk content management across Confluence. Find and replace is one of the features (works for URLs as well) - Space Content Manager.

It's hard to get exactly your use case but if you want to repeat sentences or paragraphs across pages then an except macro is worth looking into.

I don't know much about the variable macro.

Macros add a certain level of complexity, you have to judge whether your team will use them, if not then you can end up with doing extra work as the macro or variable app only covers some scenarios so you also need to do a find and replace (and you need an app to do it across pages).

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Hi @Chris Collins 

There are three ways how to approach this.

• Use a search and replace app form the Atlassian marketplace.
  The risk is that if you're looking for a more generic word, it will replace things that you don't want to replace, so manual approach will be needed.
  
  
• a Variable app. This allows you to define a variable, for example, the word Elephant would be your variable. Every time you use Elephant, you put it into a Variable macro.
  
  
• Confluence Excerpt / Insert Excerpt macro.
  You put a reusable text on one page into an Excerpt macro. If you want to reuse it, use the Insert Excerpt macro. You can reuse it multiple times. Change the original in the Excerpt, all Inserts will change accordingly.
  Not suitable for a single word but in your case it might be doable.

[Chris Collins]

Thank you both for the responses and suggestions - appreciated.

I will digest all of this and come back with any follow ups :)

Thanks again.