Including Content from Different Page
Asked by Lukas MIglbauer:

Hi all!

I am trying to come up with a Laboratory Guide to get rid of all the different PDF versions floating around the company. The guide includes a lot of drawing which need to be re-used on other pages.

I have a huge page wich includes all the drawing as a first overview. It is strucutred via headings and clickable via the beautiful content macro.

So it consists of the heading, picture and a short description which is mostly navigated by the table of contents displayed at the top of the page

My issue right now is, I want to use the content from heading #23 on 3 different pages. What is the smartest way to do so? I have like 100+ headings, so it would be cool if I dont have to remember the names of the anchors or excerpt macros. Is there something like a macro which I can click my way trough and select what I want do have displayed from a different page?

BR Lukas


Answers:
author: Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
body: Hi [@Lukas MIglbauer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4623940) ,

welcome to the Atlassian Community.

I have one recommendation how I'd tackle the problem you describe: **Use an include library** approach. How does that work?

* You define for every image (or other content) you want to reuse a separate page and give this a meaningful name so that you can find it easily.
* On the pages where you want to use that content, you can use an include page macro to include the page you're interested in - and that macro comes with a search based on your pages.

How does that sound? Here's also a [more complete description how to organize reusable content](https://www.k15t.com/rock-the-docs/documentation-guide/content-reuse/organize-your-reusable-content). My colleagues are writing this guide. Let me know if you have any feedback.

Cheers,  
Matthias


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Lukas MIglbauer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4623940) , we can also suggest trying our app - [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview).

The add-on provides the [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros that allow you to collect/reuse data from

* Current page
* Specific page
* Page and childpages
* Page and all descendants
* Pages with labels

You'll be able to collect several (not only the first one!) excerpts from the same page and show various meta information as:

* source page title
* parent page
* space
* labels
* excerpt
* author
* last modifier
* created
* updated

Maybe this may help your case.


author: Shannon Meehan _K15t_
body: Hi [@Lukas MIglbauer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4623940) , I work at K15t with Matthias and in addition to the Rock the Docs article he shared, we also created [a video that dives into content reuse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGjyHshdSTE) in Confluence.

The video gives you some examples of how to use the Include Page macro that Matthias mentioned, page excerpts with the Excerpt macro that Bill referred to, and also how to create an include library. I hope it's helpful!

Cheers,

Shannon


author: Bill Bailey
body: I have been using this paid plugin for years: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/169/multiexcerpt?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/169/multiexcerpt?hosting=server&tab=overview)

My use model is to have a page of excerpts, with the title _includes, outside the page root (so it does NOT appear in the lefthand navigation. Then each of the excerpts are named, making them easy to reference.


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