• Type: Suggestion
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.1
• Component/s: Documentation - All
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[CONFSERVER-9502] Explain inclusion/exclusion of wiki markup (formatting, images, links) in excerpt and excerpt-include macros

Collapse comment: Matt Ryall added a comment - 01/Nov/2007 10:00 PM

Matt Ryall added a comment - 01/Nov/2007 10:00 PM

The underlying issues with the excerpt macros have been fixed for Confluence 2.6.1. Please see the related issues above.

All wiki markup should be valid inside an excerpt macro, and rendered in exactly the same way on any page which includes it.

Please raise a separate issue if there are problems with this in versions of Confluence after 2.6.1.

Expand comment: Matt Ryall added a comment - 01/Nov/2007 10:00 PM

Matt Ryall added a comment - 01/Nov/2007 10:00 PM The underlying issues with the excerpt macros have been fixed for Confluence 2.6.1. Please see the related issues above. All wiki markup should be valid inside an excerpt macro, and rendered in exactly the same way on any page which includes it. Please raise a separate issue if there are problems with this in versions of Confluence after 2.6.1.

Collapse comment: UQ Business School added a comment - 10/Oct/2007 11:59 PM

UQ Business School added a comment - 10/Oct/2007 11:59 PM

Hi

I've just voted for this bug, but to give some specifics of what we're doing:

We use Confluence and Builder for our organisation's public web site, as well as our internal documentation.
We've recently upgraded from 2.5.2 to 2.5.7.

We have a page (named QandA) which has a half a dozen child pages.

Each child page has the basic format

{excerpt:hidden=true} [Name of the current page] {excerpt}
A whole bunch of text which is shown when this page is visited....

On our main pages, we use the code:
{include-random:QandA|space=spacename|nopanel|link=false}

NB: the square brackets around "Name of the current page" to make a link to the current page. I've backslashed the set braces and square brackets so as to quote them.

So, the include-random macro picks a random child page, and shows the text within that page's

{excerpt}

macro.
Since this text also contains a hyperlink, if the user clicks on it, they go to the randomly picked child page.

Due to the recent change to excerpt macro, this no longer works.

cheers
Andy

Expand comment: UQ Business School added a comment - 10/Oct/2007 11:59 PM

UQ Business School added a comment - 10/Oct/2007 11:59 PM Hi I've just voted for this bug, but to give some specifics of what we're doing: We use Confluence and Builder for our organisation's public web site, as well as our internal documentation. We've recently upgraded from 2.5.2 to 2.5.7. We have a page (named QandA) which has a half a dozen child pages. Each child page has the basic format {excerpt:hidden=true} [Name of the current page] {excerpt} A whole bunch of text which is shown when this page is visited.... On our main pages, we use the code: {include-random:QandA|space=spacename|nopanel|link=false} NB: the square brackets around "Name of the current page" to make a link to the current page. I've backslashed the set braces and square brackets so as to quote them. So, the include-random macro picks a random child page, and shows the text within that page's {excerpt} macro. Since this text also contains a hyperlink, if the user clicks on it, they go to the randomly picked child page. Due to the recent change to excerpt macro, this no longer works. cheers Andy