Excerpt include macro showing excerpt TOC within preview but disappears when publishing?

[Addie Hutchins]

I know I've done the excerpt portion correction, because when I go to the page I want the excerpt to be displayed, it's there in the preview but when I publish it, it's gone. 

I have a title page that I want to include Headings on. 

Example: 

• Title page
  • page 1
    • description
    • description
  • page 2
    • description
  • page 3

I want the descriptions to be listed on the title page. I have created an excerpt of a TOC for each page and I want to display that on the title page. When I go to excerpt include, it's all there (all descriptions) but when I publish it, it's blank. 

My preview & results:

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Addie Hutchins to add to what @Katerina Kovriga _Stiltsoft_ said:

Let me first explain why Headings in an excerpt or include macro don't populate in the ToC on a page the macro is being used on.

Since the excerpt/include macros are mirroring the detail from the parent page, it is not bringing over the underlying formatting from that page - which means that the ToC cannot pick up the content as a heading that should be included in the child page's ToC.

Now that you know, you can vote for this existing feature request using this link.

Hope this helps.

[Samuel Huber]

Hi

I think its more related to the reported bug: CONFCLOUD-72469 

As I understand @Addie Hutchins is using ToC within a Excerpt macro, not the other way round.
The feature you linked is complaining that included headings are missing / not shown in ToC....

Feel free to vote for the bug (report as affected customer)

[Katerina Kovriga _Stiltsoft_]

Hi @Addie Hutchins ,

I think that your case is not supposed to work - the result that you see in the preview is a static one, it's like a snapshot, plain text.

When you publish the page, you try to reuse the dynamic macro that pulls live headings from another page - so you just don't see anything at all.