A Quick Way to Manage Multiple Excerpt Macros

Jaime B_

Hello Confluence Support Team and People,

I am writing documentation for our software on confluence. I have a excerpts glossary with multiple (+50) excerpts, because a lot of pages have similar but not always the same content. Making sure every single one is named correctly and the content corresponding is, is a burden.

Is there a easier way to edit the name and content of these, than going on every singe one, edit the name and have the side window open and close over and over and over and over again?

 

Thanks

Edit:
I would love if for example it was not a pop-up/side window that opens but the name above the excerpt edit ready and a checkbox directly below or smth like that.
Like this for exsample:

There is no need for this:

Arkadiusz Wroblewski

@Jaime B_  Hello

What I’d do to make it manageable:

1) Best practice: stop keeping 50 excerpts on one page
Create “source pages” instead (one term/topic per page, or at least per section). Put the content in a normal page + one Excerpt, and then use Excerpt Include everywhere else.
Result: you edit once, and it updates everywhere. No more opening the macro side panel 50 times.

2) If you need a glossary-style setup:
Make each glossary entry its own small page and use an index page to link to them (or roll them up). It’s way easier to maintain than a mega-page full of macros.

3) If you absolutely must keep them on one page:
There’s no great bulk tool. The only “less painful” approach is to reduce the number of excerpts (group them into fewer, larger excerpts), so you’re editing 10 blocks instead of 50.