How do I get ToC Exclude Headings to work in Cloud?

[Mads Trier]

ToC Exclude Headings does not work for me.

I have two headings I would like to exclude:

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Introduction

Table of Contents

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Using the ToC macro, I've modified the 'exclude headings' parameter a million times. I can barely tell you what works and what doesn't, because it seems to be doing so at complete random.

I have tried using the | from server version, which doesn't seem to work, but is listed on the documentation page: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-table-of-contents-macro/

I have tried using , with spaces on both sides, one on either side and no spaces - none of them consistently work.

I tried renaming the headline to just 'Table' to see if there was an issure there, and it worked once, but when I went to correct it back to the right name, it stopped working. I tried reverting it to one-word and now it no longer works. Along the way, the 'Introduction' header seems to appear and disappear seemingly at random. At one point I had that as the only exclusion and it didn't even work. Then I removed all exclusions and 'Introduction' disappeared from the table.

Anyone have any idea what is going on with this macro?

[Mads Trier · Accepted solution]

I think I've solved it by doing 2 things:

a. I've noticed that the change doesn't always follow through, so after publishing, I go back to edit and publish again and then it changes.

b. Using the syntax from this posts answer by Ryan Canfield, it seems to work! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Exclude-multiple-headings-in-table-of-contents/qaq-p/1904617

[Mads Trier]

I tried adding a second ToC Macro and sucessfully excluded "Introduction" with the parameter

"Introduction,"

Then I went back to edit the original ToC - and did not touch the new ToC - and when I published the new ToC stopped excluding Introduction. Is the macro just broken?

[Mads Trier]

I tried using parentheses in the parameter

(Introduction,Table)

And that worked!

Then I changed the headline again, along with the parameter

(Introduction,Table of Contents)

And that did not work.
Then I changed it back to

(Introduction,Table)

and now that also does not work.

This is absurd.