Is there any option/app to select the content on a given page/space by metadata
Asked by Johannes:

Hey guys,

I am looking for an option/app which allows me to select a certain content (by metadata) from a given page/space and show that content in a reduced form. The goal is to allow a client accessing easily (maybe by choosing certain metadata from a sidebar) the information he/she is looking for on single page.  

Thank you for your help!


Answers:
author: Kristian Klima
body: Scroll Versions by K15t supports creating conditional content via Variants (it's a component of Scroll Versions).  

This allows you to create multiple variants of your space and present just the specific content using Scroll Viewport.

In my previous gig we used Variants to create three variants of our documentation for three product tiers (Free, Growth Enterprise). We had pages that only appeared in the Free doc set, pages that appeared in all, pages that appeared in Enterprise only, all authored in the single Confluence space.

Alternatively, there may be apps that use labels to achieve smth similar but given the EOL status for Confluence Server, your mileage may vary.

BTW, K15r supports migration to Confluence Cloud and Datacenter so you can take your variants with you should you choose to migrate your server.


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi [@Johannes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5221442)

As Kristian had mentioned, the use case you've described does sound like a perfect use case for what we can Variant Management in [Scroll Documents](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217608/scroll-documents-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).

As Scroll Documents is available for Confluence Cloud and Data Center, we consider the app to be the successor app for the aforementioned Scroll Versions.

Scroll Documents (depending on the complexity of your use case also in combination with [Variants for Scroll Documents](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1226295/variants-for-scroll-documents?tab=overview&hosting=cloud)) introduces conditional content and variants, allowing you to make pages or paragraphs conditional based on audience needs, which sounds exactly what you're looking for.

Using this functionality, you can easily assign labels to your content (either to pages or certain paragraphs on a specific page) to control wether specific content is available in a certain variant only.

Your readers can then access the specific variant using a variant picker directly within Confluence. Alternatively you can make certain variants available to your readers using Scroll Viewport (if you want to make the content available online), or export it using one of our Scroll Exporters (PDF, Word, HTML). We're also currently finishing a publishing feature in Scroll Documents which will allow you to publish certain variants to a separate space for easier content consumption.

You can [check out more details in our documentation](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-docs/3.16/cloud/manage-variants).

If this sounds interesting, please feel[free to book a demo](https://www.k15t.com/products/scroll-apps-for-confluence) with our team, so they can show you everything in more detail and answer any more concrete question you might have.

Have a great start into 2024!

Cheers,  
Nils


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