how to make a difference between two pages
Asked by Francoise DUCLOS:

I want to be able to make a difference between two pages , thoses are diff?rent and coming from several parts of my space


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Francoise,

I just came across your question and I noticed that we didn't get an answer for you regarding your requirement.

From what I understand, you want something similar that the [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html?_ga=2.201472977.1531468599.1586154211-1807160611.1583331418) provides, except that you want the content not to be updated when the page is updated. You want to display a historical excerpt. Is that right?

If not, perhaps I could use some further clarification, or if you have an image describing the type of macro you require.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Francoise DUCLOS
body: Hello Shannon

Thanks very much for your post. YOu are right and you understood clearly my needs :-)

Regards

Fran?oise


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Fran?oise,

Thank you for confirming, and I'm terribly sorry for the delay. This isn't a functionality of Confluence at this time, but I'm working to find some kind of feature request or solution for you.

Thank you for your patience!

Shannon


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Fran?oise,

I hope you are well!

I discovered a case where upon viewing a historical version of a page, even the excerpt macros will include the most recent version. This confirms that it is also not possible to display historical excerpts in a page.

A feature request was created as a result of that, but it has been closed since we don't have plans to implement this in the near future.

* [CONFCLOUD-28699](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-28699) *Provide a content history change for the excerpt include macro*

I believe that for you, the best solution would be to use an add-on that can help you with this. I found two that could work for you.

* [MultiExcerpt by Artemis Software](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/169/multiexcerpt?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)
* [ConfiTemplates by Vertuna LLC](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216556/confitemplates-templates-excerpts?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

Both of these solutions appear to handle multiple excerpts. You could create one for each version and re-use it, without worrying about it changing on the page.

If you want to give it a try, you can get a free trial of the add-ons and see if it meets your needs.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Shannon


author: Jessica
body: Hi [@Francoise DUCLOS](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3443995) can you describe what you are trying to accomplish a bit more?

If you want to include a part of a page in Confluence onto another page you can do that with the excerpt include macro:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html>

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You can also include an entire page with the page include macro:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/include-page-macro-724765214.html>

comments: author: Francoise DUCLOS
body: Hi [@Jessica](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3581000)

In fact I want to be able to "blocked" a version and I want to be able to say, this file is representative of the step A end this one of the step B. The big problme with Confluence is to have a new version at each change. SO it is quite impossible to "fix" a step. As the notion of history and of version doesn't exist, it is quite difficult to trace the differents steps of the history. Don't know if it is clear... tell me

Thanks