Summary from several pages with "history"

Question

Hi,

this might be a little tricky to describe, but I'll try my best :)

1. We have several internal teams, all of which have their own (templated) "overall status" page in Confluence. 
2. The status page has a table, which has a labeled area for the Excerpt macro (label "ote"). There's just a few bullets of information and that's it.

3. The macro will then gather the excerpts on one "overall status of the teams" page. This works just fine 👍Example below.

4. However, weed need the possibility to view (at least for a short period of time) the history of the statuses. 
5. I guess that would mean that the Excerpt macro would gather e.g. the two topmost bullets (a selected area of several lines of text) instead of the whole table cell 🤔

I really cannot think any way to accomplish this, but I'm not a pro regarding Confluence or the macros. I hope you could help me 💪

olli.raatikainen · Answer

Thank you, would it be possible for you to give me an example on how the blog would be used in this case? :)

Is there anything more flexible in the Confluence Cloud version currently?

Arkadiusz Wroblewski · Answer

Hello @olli_raatikainen

if you want a visible history on the summary page, you will probably need to change the structure a bit.

With the native Excerpt / Excerpt Include approach, you are really pulling the current content from that page, not older versions of it. So if you keep updating the same team page, your summary page will also only show the latest status.

If you want both the current view and some history, you would usually handle that by storing each update separately. For example, you could keep one page for the current team status, and then create child pages or blog posts for the individual updates you want to keep. Then you can build the summary from those instead.