Multiexcerpt Include across pages with label

[David Doria]

With the Table Excerpt Include macro, I can specify "pull Table Excerpts from a named macro on all pages with a specific label". Is there a way to do this same thing with Multiexcerpts + Multiexcerpt Include? It seems that I can only specify a single Multiexcerpt from a single page at a time.

What I'm trying to do is build a table that looks like a Page Properties Report, but without having to have a little one row table of Page Properties on each of the pages, but rather just a normal looking block of text in a Multiexcerpt. I.e.

Page 1 (with 'label-A')

----------------------

My Header

Multiexcerpt

Some text here.

Page 2 (with 'label-A')

----------------------

My Header

Multiexcerpt

Other text here.

Report Page

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Table showing:

Page | Text

-----------

Page 1 | Some text here.

-----------

Page 2 | Other text here.

Is this possible somehow?

Thanks,

David

[Natalie Paramonova [Stiltsoft]]

Hi @David Doria ,

Could you tell me please what issues have you faced when using the Tabel Excerpt and Table Excerpt Include macros?

[David Doria]

As far as I know there's no way to generate a column in the Table Excerpt Include that has the page name that the table was pulled from like the Page Properties Report does.

[Natalie Paramonova [Stiltsoft]]

Hi @David Doria 

Thank you, I got it. You're right, there is no option to add a column with page titles in one click for now.

Please find multiple workarounds that may work for you here:

1. TBLFILTER-297
2. TBLFILTER-268

[David Doria]

Yea, TBLFILTER-297 works but is really painful to have people remember to put the same name in every row. And when the page name changes, a lot of things break :(

TBLFILTER-268 is better (I've tried that) but we're afraid to put too much complexity into the pages that a lot of untrained users need to touch. People already keep adding extra things into the tables or the Table Excerpt macros as it is, so needing a separate little table that doesn't make sense to anyone except the "admins" that know about the outer join, etc. is a hard sell.

Both issues mentioned "but we have it in our roadmap" - any idea when that will be available?

Thanks,

David