How to insert into "PDF Space Export Title Page" HTML the first page title selected for export?

[Graham Hannington]

I'm choosing my words carefully here, because I've seen similar questions derailed by wording issues...

I have a page in my personal Confluence space. The page has multiple descendant pages in its tree hierarchy. I want to export that page and its descendants to a single PDF file. I want the title page of the PDF to cite the title of that "root" page.

I can do that just fine.

My problem: each time I want to do that—export a different root page and its descendants to a PDF—I have to edit the "PDF Space Export Title Page" HTML and manually insert (paste) the title of the root page.

For example, given the following tree hierarchy of pages that I want to export to a single PDF:

• Migrating from A to B
  • History
  • Required tasks
    • Task 1
    • Task 2
    • Task 3
  • Differences between A and B

I must edit the "PDF Space Export Title Page" HTML, and insert the text "Migrating from A to B". For example (some details of this HTML are specific to my space, my CSS):

<div class="pagebreak">
<p><img style="height: 0.75in;" src="/download/attachments/197013166/MyCompany_Logo.png"/></p>
<h1 class="cover">Migrating from A to B</h1>
<p>My name<br/>
15 March 2019</p>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak">
<h1>About this document</h1>
<p>This document consists of pages from the internal Company wiki that have been exported to a portable document format (PDF) file.</p>
<p>Some links in this document refer to wiki pages not included in this document. These links refer to the live wiki on the Company intranet.</p>
</div>
<h1>Contents</h1>

I don't want to do that. I don't want to have to manually insert the page title.

I want to specify a placeholder instead. (How) can I do that?

I don't want to install a plugin. I understand that some plugin developers might respond, "That's a shame, because my plugin can do that"!

I have a similar question about inserting the current date in the PDF title page. I've seen similar questions; but again, they've been derailed by wording issues. So I might create a separate question about that. Maybe user name, too.

[Vero Rivas]

Hi @Graham Hannington 

   Look at this posts, maybe can help you

   https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/customize-exports-to-pdf/

   https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-PDF-Export-Add-firsts-page-title-to-Export-Title-Page/qaq-p/668063

Cheers