/include doesn't find my newly created page

Chris Dion

I create a new page, and my manager needs to include my page in his summary every monday morning.

I get this issue 50 % of the time: The page I just created is not found by the page finder to include. The main confluence search bar finds it, and the link is valid, but the include function doesn't allow me to just throw a link at it. 

How can we resolve that?

 

Artem Nek_Votazz

Hi Chris,

A few separate things are going on here:

1) The macro doesn't take a URL by design. Include Page (the "Include content"
macro in the Cloud editor) resolves its target by page title/ID through the
picker, not by a pasted link — so dropping the link in won't work, even
though the link itself is valid.

2) The intermittent "right after I created it" misses are usually the picker's
autocomplete being stale, not the page being missing — which fits what
you're seeing, since the page is already in the index (the main search
finds
it). Re-opening the editor/picker and typing the exact full title usually
resolves it. Also confirm the page is actually published and not still a
draft — drafts aren't includable.

3) If instead it's specific pages that never resolve (not just timing), check
restrictions/permissions. The macro respects page restrictions and only
resolves pages the person inserting the macro can view. Since your manager
is the one adding the include, he needs View permission on the new page —
if
that page (or a parent it inherits from) has restrictions that don't cover
him, it'll be findable by you but not by him.

For the recurring Monday summary, you could skip hand-picking each page: label
the new pages (e.g. weekly-update) and surface them with a Content by label
macro (or a Page Properties Report if you add a Page Properties macro). That
pulls them in automatically — it's a summary/list view rather than a full
embed
like Include, which often suits a weekly summary anyway.

Best,
Artem

Votazz