Populate a section of page to a master page

[MIchael Maziarz]

I have ten different members updating their status pages.  I would like to have that same information automatically updated on a master report page to include input from each one of the pages.  Can this be done?

[Rik de Valk]

Hi @MIchael Maziarz , 

You can use the Excerpt and Excerpt Include macros for this purpose.

1. Create individual pages as source-pages, and include an Excerpt macro. Each author can manage their own content on their individual page. Any content that needs to be included on the 'master page' needs to go within the Excerpt macro. 
2. Create one master-age. And include one Excerpt Include macro for each 'source-page'. 

The master page will always show the up-to-date content from the combined source-pages. And each source-page can have its own author, has its own version history and its own comments and attachments. 

Have a nice day! Rik

[MIchael Maziarz]

Thanks Rik.  I only need a section from each page to populate into a master report. How can I only take text content to the page.   Do you know of any developer that could help me solve this problem?

[Rik de Valk]

But that is exactly what the Excerpt macro does. Any content inside the macro will show on the master page. And any content outside of the macro will not

[MIchael Maziarz]

When a person makes an update in their section, I would like it to update into the master report in their section automatically.  Right now, I have ten different pages.  Each page has two distinct reporting fields.  The first is currently the second is future. They report on multiple tasks for each section.  Then I convert the master to a word document to send to my management.    Right now, I have to export each of the 10 to word, cut off all the non-essential information, copy and paste all current for the 10, then do the same thing for the future.  Then I have to reimport into the Atlassian page and send the word document to management.  I would rather have the content imported to Atlassian in the order we need it, and the manager gets notified when the report has been published.   Any thoughts?

[Julie d_Antin _Elements_]

@MIchael Maziarz If you need to excerpt multiple different sections from each of the 10 pages, check out some of the macros available on the Marketplace. (The one Rik mentioned is free and included, but does have some limits).

The only other idea I can suggest is adding a Page properties macro to the 10 pages, and having individuals update the information that needs to appear on the Master page within that Page properties macro.

You'll need to include a Page properties report on the Master page, but then the information will automatically be updated.