Multi-Excerpt Plugin

I like this plug in and have used it quite a bit.  I would however really like to do a multi-excerpt-include with a page from a different space.  The pageTitle parm does not recognize the space:page convention.

This plug-in is a GREAT idea.  However, what I really need is for it to be integrated with other macros like the Children macro... that way I can actually have multiple excerpts for dynamically defined locations (say a list of all children below a parent) displayed without having to manually create the lists with multiple excerpts specified.

Any chance this new version of excerpt will be incorporated into other macros?

Rick

This pludin is suited for me, however it is`t support the source page security restrictions. Why?

I would like to be able to group together contents from multiple "multi-excerpt" sections with the same name within the page. For example, a content page with markup:

{multi-excerpt:name=topic1}
some content for topic1
{multi-excerpt}
.....
{multi-excerpt:name=topic2}
some content for topic2
{multi-excerpt}
.....
{multi-excerpt:name=topic1}
some more content for topic1
{multi-excerpt}
.....
{multi-excerpt:name=topic2}
some more content for topic2
{multi-excerpt}
.....

Then a summary page with markup:

Topic 1:
{multi-excerpt-include:Content page|name=topic1}
Topic 2:
{multi-excerpt-include:Content page|name=topic2}

should show:

Topic 1:
some content for topic1
some more content for topic1
Topic 2
some content for topic2
some more content for topic2

The current behavior seems to only show the last excerpt for each "multi-excerpt:name":

Topic 1:
some more content for topic1
Topic 2
some more content for topic2

I love this plugin, with one major exception - it kills all formatting within the excerpt. So while it renders great on the page that includes the content, on the master page, it looks terrible. Headings (h1 h2 h3 h4 etc), macros, table formatting all get killed...

Is there a way you could make an option to turn that on and off?

I was trying to install this plugin, but get some error when loading, any help here?

 I am on Confluence 2.6.0 and J2SE v1.4.2_13 SDK

Thanks in advance.

Man Che

Multi Excerpt

Vendor: Brendan Patterson
Plugin Version: 1.1

Multi Excerpt Plugin

Uninstall plugin | multi-excerpt
Identify multiple excerpts within a page
Error: There was a problem loading the descriptor for module 'macro' in plugin 'Multi Excerpt'. Class version is incompatible with current JVM: biz.artemissoftware.confluence.multiexcerpt.MultiExcerptMacro |

We use Java 6 now, and looks like the error goes away.

Thanks.

Hi,

We have just upgraded to confluence 2.7.3 and have Multi Excerpt plugin version 1.1 installed.

When we are using a table inside the multi-excerpt macro it is not displaying the table and just reading it as simple text.

{multi-excerpt:name=some sample 1}
|| Status || Task || Target Date || Comments ||
| 1 | XYVVVVV | ABC | type any comments here...|
{multi-excerpt}

Could you please let us know what can we do to recitify this.

Also the multi-excerpt-include plugin in this case is working as expected and is able to display the table on the page it is called.

JFYI previously when we had confluence 2.5.8 and Multi Excerpt 1.0 it worked fine.

Thanks and Regards
Aditee

I'm not sure where the issues log for this project is, so I'm posting this here. Hope that's OK.

Currently the multi-excerpt macro doesn't render images which are attached to the original page. Would be really cool if it did!

Hi, is there a way to link excerpts between spaces? Thanks.

I observe the same behavior reported by Rick Hadsall on March 12, and will be trying 2.7.1 on Monday when my wiki adminstrator is in. Since it seems by the comments of some (Simon Wheatley) to do the trick, it would be great if it were made the current version...it's going to be a hard sell to my administrator to install this new version based on the comments here!

Hi--great plugin! We just updated to version 2.0 of the multi-excerpt plugin, and are running v2.5.7 version of confluence. For my page, I am using the dynamictable plugin within the multi-excerpt text, and the table rendors correctly in the multi-excerpt-include page, but the raw text is displayed in the page where content will be displayed elsewhere. Is it the dynamictable plugin, or something else that is causing this problem? Thanks!

Documentation for how to use this with excerpts from other spaces needs to be corrected. From our experiments, it looks like you need to specify the space and page as the default parameter. It is not clear what named parameter represents the default parameter, but pageTitle didn't seem to be it. The space key does not go in front of the excerpt name as shown under parameters. The example is more accurate.

{multi-excerpt-include:spaceKey:pageName|name=excerptName}

I would suggest making page the parameter name (see Macro Parameters Index) for the page name with or without a space key and it be the same as the default parameter.

As far as I can tell, it's not possible to use this plugin to include excerpts specified on the /same/ page. Is this right? IF it were possible, then this would be a nice way to cleanly place the same content multiple times within a page...I'm not sure of another way to do this. Maybe somebody has some ideas...

I tried to include content which had {create-page}
plugin to create sub-pages and read it with reporting plugin.
It works ok for Multi-Excerpt plugin v. 1.1in Confluence 2.8, but in Confulence 2.9.1 and Multi-Excerpt 2.0 these new pages created with same create-page command are created as sub-pages to page that has excerpt written, not where excerpt is included. Same happens when reading reporting plugin, only pages under the page where excerpts are written are included.

How can I adjust multi-excerpt-include to target the including page, not the included page?

This macro works like a charm in 3.0.1 but breaks the rendering of macros like - say - table-plus. If a table-plus macro resides within a multi-excerpt, the displayed content (on the page itself) gets rendered as a single string as oppose to an actual table. Code to reproduce:

{multi-excerpt:name=blah}
{table-plus:sortIcon=true}
|| Attribute Name || UI Location || Notes/Description | {color:gray}*Data Type (DS)*{color} |
| Last idle time | Display Channel | Timestamp counter when the channel last entered idle state  | {color:gray}integer{color} |
| Call  | Display Channel | Last call ID made on that channel | {color:gray}integer{color} | 
{table-plus}
{multi-excerpt}

Any chance we can get this fixed?

Update
Never mind - I reproduced this issue with the native {excerpt} macro and turns out with the same issue. This isn't multi-excerpt's fault after all!

Hey there,

I was wondering whether it would be possible to get multi-excerpts working with the contentbylabel marcro?