Can I have a link in an Excerpt used in Children Display Macro?

Question

For Confluence Cloud, 5.9.7:

I have a parent page (Customers) that has a child page (Accounts). The Accounts page contains an Excerpt macro, whose text includes a link to another page. The Excerpt macro itself recognizes it as a link: when click on it, I see the menu with the choices GO TO LINK/EDIT/UNLINK.

On the parent page, however, when the excerpt displays via the Children Display macro, the link does not display as a link.

Is there a way to make the above work? Or, am I asking Confluence to do something beyond its capabilities?

Thanks,

Steve

ChildrenDisplayMacroIncludeExcerptsParameterDocumentation.PNG

ChildrenDisplayMacroExcerptRichContent.PNG

Stephen Kairys_keaglp · Answer

Follow-up to the above. Here's a snippet from the Confluence documentation that displays when I click the Documentation link in the Children Display macro.

ChildrenDisplayMacroIncludeExcerptsParameterDocumentation.PNG

Stephen Kairys_keaglp · Answer

OK, maybe we're talking about two different things.

* I tried adding a 2nd paragraph to my Excerpt macro and it displayed OK on the parent page per the Children Display macro. (Steven, you link seemed to imply otherwise.)
* In my Children Display macro, I tried the below (setting Excerpt Display to "Rich Content" and my link now works.
ChildrenDisplayMacroExcerptRichContent.PNG

Please comment on the above. I'm not saying I found a definite solution but wondering if I did not communicate my original question clearly.

Thanks!

Steven F Behnke · Answer

Unfortunately this has been an issue for years with the specific macro, "Children Macro." The original suggestion for improvement is located here – https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30192

There has been numerous bugs and suggestions reported since, but none of them have been able to aggregate any votes. I did the annoying thing of linking them all together but hopefully that helps people find the original improvement request and vote on it.