Public Confluence pages with page inclusions
Asked by Christoph P?per:

Recently, Atlassian added support for [public links to Confluence pages](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/share-content-externally-with-public-links/), so you could share internal content with a broad audience. Readers don't even need an Atlassian account to access it. This works nicely for basic pages.

However, if a page published this way uses the [Include Page Macro](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-include-page-macro/), readers will just see a note in its place explaining that they're not allowed to see everything. This does not change at all if the included page is made available publicly, too.

Atlassian documentation has this to say about content visibility:
> Visitors to a public page will see a safe, view-only version of the page that was shared which hides any content outside of the shared page (page tree, macros, etc.) and locks most Confluence functionality.

Therefore, I believe this is working as designed. Atlassian does [allow some macros](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/how-secure-are-public-links/#Macros-that-won?t-be-hidden-on-public-pages), though; as of writing:

* [Status](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-status-macro/)

* [Table of Contents](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-table-of-contents-macro/)

* [Info, Tip, Note, and Warning](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-info-tip-note-and-warning-macros/)

* [Code Block](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-code-block-macro/)

* [Expand](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-expand-macro/)

* [Excerpt](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-excerpt-macro/)

* [Roadmap Planner](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-roadmap-planner-macro/)

Is there any workaround to have some content be reused on public Confluence pages (other than lobbying Atlassian to change the handling of the Include Page macro)?


Answers:
author: Marc - Devoteam
body: Hi [@Christoph P?per](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4558100)

The Excerpt and Excerpt include macros should give the option for you. Use these to display information from other pages in the public open pages.

comments: author: Christoph P?per
body: As far as I understand the documentation, Atlassian does support marking up parts of a public page as (named) [Excerpts](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-excerpt-macro/) which can then be reused with the Excerpt Include macro elsewhere, but they do not support the [Excerpt Include](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-excerpt-include-macro/) macro on public pages for the same reason they do not support the Include Page macro there.

I've tried this anyway, but as expected it didn't work. That means you can reuse (parts of) public (and private) pages in private pages, but you cannot reuse (parts of) any pages in public pages.


author: Marc - Devoteam
body: Hi,

But Excerpt is not one of those macros, as stated in [Macros-that-won't-be-hidden-on-public-pages](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/how-secure-are-public-links/#Macros-that-won%E2%80%99t-be-hidden-on-public-pages)


author: Christoph P?per
body: Yes, *Excerpt* is supported, but *Excerpt Include* is not.


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