how to make a difference between two pages

[Francoise DUCLOS]

I want to be able to make a difference between two pages , thoses are différent and coming from several parts of my space

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hello Francoise,

I just came across your question and I noticed that we didn't get an answer for you regarding your requirement.

From what I understand, you want something similar that the Excerpt Include Macro provides, except that you want the content not to be updated when the page is updated. You want to display a historical excerpt. Is that right?

If not, perhaps I could use some further clarification, or if you have an image describing the type of macro you require.

Regards,

Shannon

[Francoise DUCLOS]

Hello Shannon

Thanks very much for your post. YOu are right and you understood clearly my needs :-)

Regards

Françoise

[Shannon S]

Hi Françoise,

Thank you for confirming, and I'm terribly sorry for the delay. This isn't a functionality of Confluence at this time, but I'm working to find some kind of feature request or solution for you.

Thank you for your patience!

Shannon

[Shannon S]

Hello Françoise,

I hope you are well!

I discovered a case where upon viewing a historical version of a page, even the excerpt macros will include the most recent version. This confirms that it is also not possible to display historical excerpts in a page.

A feature request was created as a result of that, but it has been closed since we don't have plans to implement this in the near future.

• CONFCLOUD-28699 Provide a content history change for the excerpt include macro

I believe that for you, the best solution would be to use an add-on that can help you with this. I found two that could work for you.

• MultiExcerpt by Artemis Software 
• ConfiTemplates by Vertuna LLC 

Both of these solutions appear to handle multiple excerpts. You could create one for each version and re-use it, without worrying about it changing on the page.

If you want to give it a try, you can get a free trial of the add-ons and see if it meets your needs.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Shannon

[Jessica]

Hi @Francoise DUCLOS  can you describe what you are trying to accomplish a bit more? 

If you want to include a part of a page in Confluence onto another page you can do that with the excerpt include macro:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html

You can also include an entire page with the page include macro:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/include-page-macro-724765214.html

[Francoise DUCLOS]

Hi @Jessica 

In fact I want to be able to "blocked" a version and I want to be able to say, this file is representative of the step A end this one of the step B.  The big problme with Confluence is to have a new version at each change. SO it is quite impossible to "fix" a step. As the notion of history and of version doesn't exist, it is quite difficult to trace the differents steps of the history. Don't know if it is clear... tell me

Thanks