How can I tailor a user manual per customer?

[Ayelet Gazit]

So, I am trying to understand if confluence can be used for the following:

I want to create a "base" user guide that holds information on all the product functionalities.

Then, for some projects, we would want to tailor the guide, re-using only parts of the "base" guide, and adding / editing it to include the customized features.

Is this something confluence offer?

I have played with copy paste functionality, yet that results with a lot of editing. I am looking to have some sort of a menu / checkbox to say which features (pages?) I want to re-use, and re-use only them.
Suggestions?

[Leo Jayden]

Have you found any solution for this issue. Because I am also playing with the copy past of the funtionality for my golf grips business. But that need alot of time to do changes and editing in it.

[Mark Segall]

Hi @Ayelet Gazit - Have you tried the Excerpt Include macro?  

[Ayelet Gazit]

Hi @Mark Segall . No, I haven't. Will read about it now. How will that assist me?

[Ayelet Gazit]

Ok. I read about it, and it seems interesting, and I will try it.

However, it will force me to keep each function on a separate page (as I can only display one Excerpt macro from a page) and I am not sure how easy it will be to create the new page with all the excerpt macros on it.

In case you have additional suggestion, please let me know 

[Mark Segall]

I haven't played with it myself, but it seems like the best option from the built in macros to keep a centralized source of truth for your content.  There may be additional options in the marketplace.