How can I exclude headers of an excerpt-include from a table of contents

[Chela Wallace]

I have a Confluence page with four sections (two of which have three columns). Of the four sections, I want to excerpt two to include in another page.

How would I do that? Confluence does not let me select the content of more than one section when I use the Excerpt macro.

[thais]

Hi, Chela,

It's not possible to excerpt two sections of the page to include in another page.

As it's explained on Excerpt Macro and Excerpt Include Macro, you can only define one excerpt per page. In other words, you can only add the Excerpt macro once to a page, although you can have more than one Excerpt Include macro on a page.

Best regards,
Thais

[Chela Wallace]

I do want to define just one excerpt on the page; the issue is whether that excerpt can encompass multiple contiguous sections of a page. Is that possible?

[AnnWorley]

I just tested on Confluence 6.9 server and I could add the excerpt macro to multiple sections but the excerpt include macro only renders the first one. It seems to be the expected behavior.

The ability to render multiple excerpts from the same page in the excerpt-include macro has been suggested on our issue tracker: Excerpt Include - Can select only the first excerpt from a page You may comment and/or vote on it to communicate your use case to the development team.

For now the only workaround I can think of is to create separate pages for the multiple sections so they can be included on the other page.

[Chela Wallace]

Thanks for the info. It defeats the purpose to break the content out to separate pages, since the reason sections are used on the original page is to control formatting of related content. 

I will visit the issue and comment; being able to select multiple sections as an excerpt would be very handy. 

[AnnWorley]

I see you commented on the suggestion - thanks for the feedback.