Weekly archive of meeting page

[Derek Truesdale]

We're using a Confluence page for our meeting minutes.

I want a weekly archive of previous meetings, so it's easy to quickly find, say, the meeting minutes from 7/11.

So far, I've been doing this by creating a confluence page of archives.  I create a new expand macro, and then copy the week's minutes into that expand macro, and label it with the current day.

It mostly works, but 

• Macros within macros don't seem to generally work, so the stuff I'm copying in loses some functionality
• It takes a few minutes to do
• Storage isn't really a problem for us, but it does seem like a bit of a waste of storage to have all these copies

Is there a different method I should be using for easy access to previous versions of meetings?  Like can I tag a version every week, and then create a list of links to those tags?

Thanks!

[Derek Truesdale]

I guess my original message didn't make it clear what I want.
Here's a screenshot of my page:

The top link takes me to the current weekly meeting page.

After a meeting, I add an expand macro.  I then copy the contents of the weekly meeting minutes into the expand macro and name it "12/11/24 Meeting Notes".

I want things to work in essentially the same way, only instead of me copying everything into an expand macro, I want have a simple way that clicking n 12/11/24 takes the user to the version of the page on 12/11/24.  

The meeting minutes are updated dozens of times per week, with each attendee making their own edits to the minutes, so the revision history of the page is messy.  

The expand macro almost works, but there are some issues when I copy a page into the macro.  There's got to be a better way that I can get the same overall result without using expand.  

[Dirk Lachowski]

So, why don't you just insert a link to the page then instead of an expand? This would render as a smart link, so the link text and the meeting note page title are always in sync.

Still, you do unneeded manual work. What you are trying to accomplish is exactly what the filter-by-label macro is for: An auto populated list of pages that fulfill certain criteria. 

Another option is to just create a parent page and add the individual meeting notes as subpages:

[Dirk Lachowski]

You can just label them (“meeting”, “minutes”, https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/use-labels-to-organize-your-content/ ) and then create a single archive page using the filter-by-label macro https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-filter-by-label-macro/

[Danno]

@Derek Truesdale I'm not sure what your goal is but a simpler approach could be to have a Title Page for a given weekly meeting that has the child list macro. The child pages are each weekly meeting with the date so you can have say the most recent 5 meetings in the child page macro to be able to quickly find a previous meeting if need be.

It's also helpful to have a meeting agenda template to use so people can review it ahead of the meeting. I include a RAIL (Rolling Action Item List: A log used to track things that come up during a project) for review from the last meeting. This is just another macro, the task report.

Good luck.