A way to append a template to the bottom of a page, rather than a new page?

Question

I have a template that I created.  When used, it creates a new page.

I'd like, instead to put the "create from template" button on a page, and always have the new additions to the template appended to the bottom of that page, like a running log, rather than make new pages.  After a while, new pages becomes unwieldy when you are posting 3-4 of them a day.

How can I do this?

Robert Reiner _smartics_ · Answer

You're welcome. Thank you for your feedback!

Kari Stiller · Answer

Okay!  Thanks for your suggestions.

Robert Reiner _smartics_ · Answer

Ah, okay, I see.

As far as I know there is no out-of-the-box feature that will support your use case. If you are using a blueprint or template then always a new page is created.

What you can achieve with tools is to use some multi-excerpt feature. With this solution you would still have a new page whenever you click on the create button, but you can list the contents of these pages on one single page.

Maybe you can implement this feature using a user macro. Our you would need to write an a plugin (aka add-on). See for example How can I append a string to a wiki page on confluence?

Unfortunately I don't know such a tool since my favorite approach is to have each piece of information on a separate page to make it referable. Hopefully there is someone in the community who can recommend a third-party tool that would do what you need for your task.