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How to build a template with Excerpt macro and Excerpt include macro ?

Salim EL MOUMMY

Hello,

Can I get your help here Plz ?

I'm trying to build a template where I add an Excerpt.
I'm trying to add that earlier Excerpt an the same template so it can be shown later an the same page created with that template !

The problem is : even if a save the template before using the Excerpt Include Macro, I don't find the name of "A page" so I can include my Excerpt ?
How to use it ?
Is there any woraround to add a new Excerpt and Include it on the template ?

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Barbara Szczesniak

@Salim EL MOUMMY Welcome to the community.

As you've found, you cannot create an excerpt on a template; you must create it on a published page in order for it to be used on another page in an Excerpt Include macro.

If what you want is to have the text of an Excerpt to be included on all pages you create from a template, you might be able to put the Excerpt Include macro on the template (I haven't tried this, so I'm not sure). You would, however, need to create the excerpt on a page first.

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Barbara Szczesniak

@Salim EL MOUMMY Welcome to the community.

As you've found, you cannot create an excerpt on a template; you must create it on a published page in order for it to be used on another page in an Excerpt Include macro.

Salim EL MOUMMY

@Barbara Szczesniak

Hello,

It's true, I found no way to include a new Excerpt created on a template, unless it's already created on a page.

There will be a lot of clicks to include all the excerpts and every time I need to clone them on the page.

Thank you for your answer.

Regards

Jones_ Ryan _R_G__

Wow ... What a half baked feature.

We have three very redundant documents for curating information for different approver groups. I generally like confluences wiki pages so I thought Ill just make a template, call out each sections with exerpts then include in seperate view templates from my new single source of truth. I could even auto generte the view templates based on label rules.

Turns out there is no way to refrence a parent page, no way to link to a variable page. So each view would need to be manually connected for each exerpts (30 + times) so no time would be saved.

Im flabergasted that they didnt think that you might want to use excerpts in a generic way with templates.

This should be natively possible. What a waste of my time.

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