Table of contents does not include Excerpt Include header items

[sahluwalia]

Table of contents does not include Excerpt Include header items.

1. Create an Excerpt with H3/H4

2. Create Excerpt Include on a new page. Make sure you have a table of contents on that page

3. View published page

Expected: Table of contents to include the header items.

Actual: They are missing.

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@sahluwalia 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.

[sahluwalia]

Ah, make sense. Thanks for letting me know. I'll vote for this as this would be handy.

[Michael Verdun Heath]

I'd be inclined to call this a bug; It's something that had always worked in confluence server, so why not cloud?

In-fact it works even on-cloud until you "upgrade" to the new editor on your page.

[Mike Dennis]

I agree; The loss of this old feature is certainly a regression from a user perspective.