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The Excerpt Include macro is used to display content from one page in another.

To use this macro, the excerpt must have been defined using the Excerpt Macro and both pages must exist in the same space.

The excerpt appears as shown below:

Excerpt Macro
A short summary of this page

For this example, we are taking content from a page called 'Excerpt Macro', where the excerpt tags have already been placed. The title of the page is shown at the top of the panel and the text between the remote excerpt tags is rendered as the body of the text.

On this page:

Usage with the Macro Browser

To insert the excerpt include 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 include macro, click 'insert' to add it to your page.

Usage with the Wiki Markup Editor

What you need to type What you will get
{excerpt-include:Excerpt Macro}
Excerpt Macro
A short summary of this page

For this example, we are taking content from a page called 'Excerpt Macro', where the excerpt tags have already been placed.

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
nopanel
(nopanel)
false Controls whether the square panel border around the excerpt should be removed. By default, the square panel is always shown.

Examples

Basic example

The following code renders an excerpt from this page with default settings:

{excerpt-include:Excerpt Macro} 

The excerpt appears as shown below:

Excerpt Macro
A short summary of this page

Removing the square panel around the excerpt

By default, the excerpt is displayed within a panel. A value of "nopanel=true" displays the excerpt without the panel.

{excerpt-include:Excerpt Macro|nopanel=true}

The excerpt then appears as shown below:

A short summary of this page

RELATED TOPICS

Excerpt Macro
Working with Macros

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