How can I browse to the source of an excerpt?

Question

I just created an excerpt on one page, call it Source, in another page, call it Reference.

When people in my org view the Reference page, they see the excerpt. How can they navigate to the page the excerpt is from, since it has more context and information?

Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft} · Answer

Hi @Nathan Wilcox ,

We develop the Table Filter and Charts for Confluence app that contains the Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include macros. Here the "table" is just a part of the brand, our excerpts collect both tables and plain page abstracts.

But (and this is why my post is related to your case) you will be able to show the source page metadata for each excerpt automatically. For example, page title with a link, creator, last modified date, etc.

Matt Reiner _K15t_ · Answer

Hi @Nathan Wilcox, in Confluence, they designed the content reuse tools, like Excerpt Include, to blend into a page so readers don’t really know what’s happening. I think that’s a good choice for a lot of readers, but doesn’t work for your use case.

In your case, you’ll have to manually link to your source page before or after your Excerpt Include macro.