Include Excerpt Macro is not visible in editor once added

Question

I am using Include Excerpt to host an image used on many pages of my site so if it needs to be updated we can update it once and it will update across the whole site.

This functionality is working well, but there is a bug. After the Include Excerpt macro is added (I turn off surrounding panel) the macro disappears in the editor, but when you save the page it works properly and displays as it should. This can make editing the rest of the page difficult as there is an invisible chunk in the middle of the page that can't be seen.

Edit: Confluence won't let me report a bug so I'm publishing this in the community.

Shannon S · Answer

Hi Jacob,

Thank you for your reply. I replicated the issue, and I reported it in the bug below:

* CONFCLOUD-72529 Excerpt include macro not visible in edit mode when the surrounding panel is removed

When I have some text in the original excerpt, I noticed the image is as wide as the text. It's bizarre. Thank you for reporting this.

I also discovered while testing the issue that captions do not display in the excerpt. So in case you saw the same thing, there's a bug for that:

* CONFCLOUD-72528 Image Captions inside included Excerpt are not displayed

Thank you again and take care,

Shannon

Jacob Rosenfeld · Answer

Also, it looks like on of my screenshots didn't upload, but the Excerpt Macro is visible, it's just the "excerpt include" macro that becomes invisible after the initial publishing of the page.

Jacob Rosenfeld · Answer

I believe all the pages are using the new editor.