Hm… what I was crucially missing, was a part that you mentioned one would want to do, but the how to somehow never came: Including multiple smaller sections from one page. Following what you described I would end up with a multitude of pages with maybe one or two sentences , which I then bring together on a page where it belongs into let’s say a specific topic, and if I then would like to have an overview of three related topics with each 5 building blocks I would create another page to then include the 3 pages which include each 5 blocks of included pages ? You see how that is becoming impossible to maintain? If I now could build pages where i can share different (multiple) blocks from, without having to include t he whole page ( 1block is irrelevant for a specific group) would that be more practical? Plus allow me to rearrange the included content more granular on my new page?
Hello, I need help with reusable content. Let's say I have one single articles contains 1000 pages and 10 headers, I use it as a base source of my company's information. Then I want to export only 3rd and 7th headers with the content within it, how to do this with confluence? thanks
Ohhhh, that sounds like fun. We're pretty into content management in Confluence. With just Confluence, you could use one of two methods for designating the chunks/headers of your content. You could: -Put the content of each header on a separate page (might be easier for managing that much content) -Keep all the content on one page and put the content of each header in an Excerpt macro Then, when you want to export certain headers, create a new page, and use Page Include or Excerpt Include macros to add the headers you want. Then you can export the page as a PDF or Word file. It's a bit manual, but it could work. If you're looking to do something more advanced, like maintaining variants of your content that you can display/export for different audiences/use cases, maybe check out our app Scroll Documents and the Variants for Scroll Documents add-on. marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217608/scroll-documents-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1226295/variants-for-scroll-documents?hosting=cloud&tab=overview Also, if you need your exports to be designed/branded, you might benefit from our exporter apps: marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/24982/scroll-word-exporter-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud
Unfortunately, there's no built in report for this-though it would be a nice addition, right? 👨🏻💻If you have scripting skills, you could write a script that fetches all the pages, parses the storage format, and collects the includes. So going through /api/v2/pages?body-format=storage&limit=250 and looking for
This is great. Is there a way to edit reused content and then have the update flow back to the main source? Example: Page 1 - "My name is Mary" Page 2 - Reuses content from Page 1. User wants to update to "My name is Mary Joe" Page 1 then automatically displays "My name is Mary Joe". Is this possible?
Yes you can do that by including page 1 in page 2. If page 1 is updated the content on page 2 is automatically updated too. The page include macro always references the included page and therefor keeps it always up to date. Important to know in your example is that page 1 should only contain "My name is Mary" and nothing else, otherwise the additional content is also displayed.
Hi, sure the page include feature is a simple macro by Confluence: support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-include-page-macro/ You can also checkout our Rock the Docs category to checkout other possibilities about conditional content in case you are using Server or DC: www.k15t.com/rock-the-docs/documentation-guide/conditional-content
There are certainly some features that are only available to people using Confluence Cloud, but we've actually been using the Excerpt, Excerpt Include, and Include Page macros since the Confluence Server days. They'll also work in Confluence Data Center, they just look a bit different than those you see in this video, since we use Cloud. Enjoy! confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-include-macro-148067.html confluence.atlassian.com/doc/include-page-macro-139514.html
Hm… what I was crucially missing, was a part that you mentioned one would want to do, but the how to somehow never came:
Including multiple smaller sections from one page. Following what you described I would end up with a multitude of pages with maybe one or two sentences , which I then bring together on a page where it belongs into let’s say a specific topic, and if I then would like to have an overview of three related topics with each 5 building blocks I would create another page to then include the 3 pages which include each 5 blocks of included pages ? You see how that is becoming impossible to maintain? If I now could build pages where i can share different (multiple) blocks from, without having to include t he whole page ( 1block is irrelevant for a specific group) would that be more practical? Plus allow me to rearrange the included content more granular on my new page?
Hello, I need help with reusable content.
Let's say I have one single articles contains 1000 pages and 10 headers, I use it as a base source of my company's information. Then I want to export only 3rd and 7th headers with the content within it, how to do this with confluence?
thanks
Ohhhh, that sounds like fun. We're pretty into content management in Confluence.
With just Confluence, you could use one of two methods for designating the chunks/headers of your content. You could:
-Put the content of each header on a separate page (might be easier for managing that much content)
-Keep all the content on one page and put the content of each header in an Excerpt macro
Then, when you want to export certain headers, create a new page, and use Page Include or Excerpt Include macros to add the headers you want. Then you can export the page as a PDF or Word file. It's a bit manual, but it could work.
If you're looking to do something more advanced, like maintaining variants of your content that you can display/export for different audiences/use cases, maybe check out our app Scroll Documents and the Variants for Scroll Documents add-on.
marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217608/scroll-documents-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud
marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1226295/variants-for-scroll-documents?hosting=cloud&tab=overview
Also, if you need your exports to be designed/branded, you might benefit from our exporter apps:
marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud
marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/24982/scroll-word-exporter-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud
Like the irony of the video reuse while talking about content reuse. "This is Content Reuse! And it's magical!"
@@stokedfool Same haha :D
Doubt about Include and Include+
thank you G, very helpful
Is there a way to know where (on which pages) a reused page (or excerpt) is included in?
Unfortunately, there's no built in report for this-though it would be a nice addition, right?
👨🏻💻If you have scripting skills, you could write a script that fetches all the pages, parses the storage format, and collects the includes.
So going through /api/v2/pages?body-format=storage&limit=250 and looking for
This is great. Is there a way to edit reused content and then have the update flow back to the main source? Example:
Page 1 - "My name is Mary"
Page 2 - Reuses content from Page 1. User wants to update to "My name is Mary Joe"
Page 1 then automatically displays "My name is Mary Joe".
Is this possible?
@@_k15t Thank you!
Yes you can do that by including page 1 in page 2. If page 1 is updated the content on page 2 is automatically updated too.
The page include macro always references the included page and therefor keeps it always up to date.
Important to know in your example is that page 1 should only contain "My name is Mary" and nothing else, otherwise the additional content is also displayed.
Page includes, very interesting, can you share a link to the docs for these? Thanks!
Hi,
sure the page include feature is a simple macro by Confluence: support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-include-page-macro/
You can also checkout our Rock the Docs category to checkout other possibilities about conditional content in case you are using Server or DC: www.k15t.com/rock-the-docs/documentation-guide/conditional-content
yes, but as most of the fancy conf features - it works just on half.
There are certainly some features that are only available to people using Confluence Cloud, but we've actually been using the Excerpt, Excerpt Include, and Include Page macros since the Confluence Server days. They'll also work in Confluence Data Center, they just look a bit different than those you see in this video, since we use Cloud. Enjoy!
confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html
confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-include-macro-148067.html
confluence.atlassian.com/doc/include-page-macro-139514.html
Thanks mate!
You're welcome, Christian!
The feature looks great but this guy and that peppy music gives me a migraine so I had to leave the video and find a different guide.