Table of Contents not listing content from macro

[Kai Valentine]

When I use the "/include page" macro, for some reason the table of contents macro will not include anything from there and I don't understand why. It's only listing the bullet points I have outside of that.

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Kai Valentine Welcome to Confluence!

Let me first explain why Headings in an excerpt or include macro don't populate in the ToC on a page the macro is being used on. Since the excerpt/include macros are mirroring the detail from the parent page, it is not bringing over the underlying formatting from that page - which means that the ToC cannot pick up the content as a heading that should be included in the child page's ToC.

Now that you know, you can vote for this existing feature request using this link.

Hope this helps.

[Kai Valentine]

thank you, yes this helped!

[Andy Gladstone]

@Kai Valentine please click on the Accept Answer button so others looking for similar assistance can find it in the future. I appreciate you confirming that the answer helped you, let's let it help others!

Thank you.