Table Excerpt Include from parent table when Creating from Template
Asked by Nimo:

Hello everyone! I would be very grateful if you could give me a hand with the issue in the title.  

What I would like to achieve is the following:  

?There is a page, created from template "X", where users introduce datas on the blank spaces of a table.  

In this case: the user filled "A", "B" and "C"  

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?Below the table there is a "Create from Template" macro button. After the user fills the table and updates it, he clicks the button, and a child page is created from template "Y".

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?The table on the child page inherits (or reflects) some of the the answers that the user filled in the parent page from which the template was created  

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My issue is that "parent table" is not included in the selectable Excerpt Sources for the "Table Excerpt Include" macro, and therefore I cannot set the template to include answers that the user provided in the parent table.

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Any ideas on how to implement this will be welcome!  
I am unsure about me being a simple admin of the space being able to add plug ins, so being able to achieve this


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Nimo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4520179) ,

The option to search for any Excerpts on the parent page is not included into the Table Excerpt Include macro as for now.

As usual, the parent page is a place for the combined report, generated using the tables located lower on the Space page tree. And your case is somewhat the opposite one - your child page collects the table from the parent page.

The workaround may be to use manually created labels for the parent page (like test_1, test_2, test_3, etc.) and manually specifying them into the Table Excerpt Include macro (it may be faster than specifying the title of the specific parent page):

![Fri 2-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/156945iD599B38429970A39/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Fri 2-1.png")

![Fri 2-2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/156946i985EE508ABA17E45/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Fri 2-2.png")

![Fri 2-3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/156947i63A3DC671FB1F18E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Fri 2-3.png")

comments: author: Nimo
body: Thank you for your reply!  
It's a pity that there is not a simple way to deal with this issue automatically.  
In my case, it would be not viable to have all employees to manually add tags to every excerpt include.  

I have seen a similar threads suggesting that user macros could be used to set labels automatically  

URLs:  
[Excerpt from parent page](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Excerpt-from-parent-page/qaq-p/1258971)  
[How can I read a page property from a parent page](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-read-a-page-property-from-a-parent-page/qaq-p/1207152)   

I am new to Confluence so it may take me some time to understand and find out how to implement what these users are mentioning, but do you think this could be a workaround for this issue?


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Maybe you'll come up with a structure where your parent page will collect child tables. Like switch your templates or smth. Then it will be much easier to handle everything.


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