This page last changed on Jun 02, 2009 by ggaskell.

The Excerpt Macro is used to mark a part of a page's content for re-use. By itself, the excerpt macro does not change the display of a page. However, defining an excerpt enables other macros such as excerpt-include and blog-posts macros to display the specified content elsewhere.

You can only have one excerpt for a page.

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Usage with the Macro Browser

To insert the excerpt macro into a page using the Macro Browser,

  1. Open your desired Confluence page, then click the 'Edit' button. The 'Edit Page' mode opens.
  2. Next, click the Macro Browser icon on the editor toolbar. The Macro Browser will open in the middle of the screen.
  3. In the Macro Browser, type the name of your desired macro into the search box at the top right of the window. Macros with a matching name will appear in the centre pane. Click on the desired macro to see its options screen. Here, you can set the macro parameters then click 'insert' to put the macro into the page.

Once you've found the excerpt macro, click 'insert' to add it to your page.

Usage with the Wiki Markup Editor

{excerpt}A short summary of this page{excerpt}

Parameters

Parameters are settings for Confluence macros that allow the user to control their content or presentation. The table below lists relevant parameters for this macro.

Parameter names are displayed differently in the macro browser interface and in wiki markup. Below, parameter names used in the macro browser are indicated in Bold text, while their equivalents in wiki markup are indicated in (bracketed) text. If the latter is not shown, then in wiki markup, the parameter's name should be omitted and only its value should be added immediately after the colon symbol (:).

Parameter Default Description
hidden
(hidden)
false Controls whether the text between the excerpt tags will appear on that page when users read it.

Hide the contents of the excerpt

{excerpt:hidden=true}A short summary of this page{excerpt}
RELATED TOPICS

Excerpt Include Macro
Working with Macros

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