Struggling with Excerpt Include Macro

Question

Hi! I'm trying to use the Except Include Macro to mirror a section of content from one Confluence page onto another, and having some issues. I know I first have to set up an Excerpt Include (see below), but I saw in the online instructions to copy and paste my content into the Excerpt Include. This means that when the content on the page itself is updated, the updated not flow into the new page where I want to insert the Excerpt Include Macro. There is probably something obvious that I am doing wrong, but I am stuck! How can I set up an Except Include so any updates to the section flow automatically to where I embed the macro?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Leila Paul

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Please start a new Question for your request and provide all the relevant information about your environment. It will also be helpful if you can provide screen images of both pages.

Leila Paul · Answer

Hi,

I am having problems with the table of contents AFTER adding the new page with the excerpt include macro. The content from the other page won't appear. The headers will be hidden from the table of contents. May you please help me out here?

Thank you!!

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Lots of people, and Atlassian team members, create videos for how to do things and post them on YouTube. I found this one about Excerpt/Excerpt Include macros, though it looks like it may be for Confluence Server, or an older version of Confluence Cloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWkxXQKO9o

Hopefully these steps below will help you.

On the page that has the content you want to mirror, while editing the page, you insert the Excerpt macro.

After selecting the macro it looks like this:

Then you put your content within the boundaries of the Excerpt macro.

If you already have the content in your page, you can select that content, cut it, and paste it within the boundaries of the macro.

Then you give the Excerpt macro a name. This is in a pane displaying on the right side of the page.

Save the page. The Excerpt does show anything special when viewing the page.

Next, in the page where you want to mirror that content, edit the page and add the Excerpt Include macro.

Fill in the page where you put the Excerpt macro.

Fill in the name you gave the Excerpt macro

Click the preview button to make sure you got the Excerpt Name right. If you did it will show you the Excerpt macro.

Save the Excerpt Include macro configuration. It will display like this when you are still Editing the page.

Then save the page and it displays like this: