Share text on several pages

[Michel Meester]

Is there a way of sharing several pieces of small text from one page to another?
When you change one piece of text on one page, it automatically changes on the other.

I tried the excerpt macro, but don't seem to be able to share than more than 1 piece of text and can't give the excerpt a name.

Does anybody has a good solution fo this?

Regards,

Michel

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You've hit the right idea - this is exactly what the excerpt macros are for.  The built-in one only supports fetching one excerpt from each source page (so you can have say 30 excerpts on a page, but each macro will have to point at a different page).

Also, if you're happy to have your snippets on their own single pages, the "include page" macro can do the same.

There is a multi-excerpt macro in the marketplace, which does exactly what it says on the tin - you can flag many things on one page as for excerpting elsewhere.

Finally, you're not expected to give excerpts a name - they're supposed to be a seamless part of the page you add them to.  If you want to highlight or name them, it's up to you to wrap them in something that changes their highlighting.

[Bill Bailey]

This is the exact use case for the multi-excerpt macro. I highly recommend it. In some cases, I place all of my excerpts on a page at space root level (so it doesn't show up in the left-hand nav panel). Makes it easier to maintain.