How to get the name/content of all ascendant pages?

Question

Hi, I got a question during using Confluence.

I`m trying to use Confluence as a Central Filing, for each file page, there are some attributes I need to get from their ascendant pages automatically.

Firstly I tried to use macro "table excerpt", but "table excerpt include" can only choose children/descendants, I cannot get parent/ascendants via this excerpt. And I finally have no idea about it.

So is there any possibility I can get the name/content of all ascendant pages of current page?

The following is a list of all the Confluence Macros that I can use:

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira in Confluence
AI Table
Attachments
Chart from Table
Code Block
Create from template
Diagramly
draw.io Board Diagram
draw.io Diagram
Embed draw.io Diagram
Expand
Gliffy Diagram
Info
Jira
Jira Charts
Note
Pivot Table
Profile picture
Roadmap Planner
Secure
Spreadsheet from Table
Status
Table Excerpt
Table Excerpt Include
Table Filter
Table from CSV
Table from JSON
Table Spreadsheet
Table Spreadsheet Include
Table Transformer
Task report
Team Calendars
Tip
Warning

Stiltsoft support · Answer

Yes, we see. Nevertheless, we've created a ticket with this improvement for our internal backlog and attached the link to this thread to it - once the feature is implemented, we'll get back here.

Camonbear · Answer

Hi Supporter,

Thanks a lot for your kind reply. Actually I`m not asking for a new function, just looking for a solution to get name of parent page, and I believe new function cannot meet the DDL of my delivery :.(

I`m also trying to use "Children Display" but still not find out a solution...

I`m using Confluence as Central Filing, page structure is "Entity-Year-Type-File", I need to list all attributes of File in File page, which including "Entity"/"Year"/"Type". If I cannot get them directly from parent pages, I can only let user input manually and they will not happy.

Stiltsoft support · Answer

Hi @Camonbear ,

Seems that you have our Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence app installed for your instance (all the "...Table..." macros in your list are ours).

Your question indeed looks like a feature request for the Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include macros.

Please can you describe the use case a little bit?

So, you have smth like this:

- Master page

---- Parent page

------- Current page

You place the Table Excerpt Include macro on the Current page and want to collect page titles and/or content from Table Excerpts from Parent page or from Parent page&Master page. Is this correct?

Can you please elaborate about the practical usage of this feature? We mean, what data and why you need to collect this way?