Describes the inclusion of a fragment of one page into another page. The term transclusion is a synonym for excerpt.

Relation: Confluence

Description

Excerpt is the term used by Confluence to describe the technique to render parts of one document within another document. The projectdoc Toolbox uses the term Transclusion for this technique.

The tip Content Reuse provides an overview over the transclusion or excerpt features of the projectdoc Toolbox.

Related Terms

Name	Short Description
Atlassian REST API Browser	Interactive API explorer for Atlassian products.
Custom Property	A property defined by the author or template author on a Confluence page.
Document Type Index Page	Index pages provide views on document instances of a given type.
Multi-excerpt	The term is used by Confluence to describe the technique to transclude one or more content fragments from one or more documents.
Page	The Confluence wiki space contains pages. If the page contains the Document Properties Marker Macro, it is a projectdoc document.
Page Blueprint	A page blueprint is a set of page templates with added functionality to help you create, manage and organize content in Confluence more easily.
Space	A tool to organize pages. A space is like a folder that contains Confluence pages.
Space Blueprint	A space blueprints is a tool to help users bootstrap the space creation process. From a dialog users select a space blueprint and create a new space with a basic, blueprint-specific set of pages.
Template	A template is part of a Confluence blueprint.
Wiki Markup	Wiki Markup is a special syntax used in Confluence to describe pages. At specific locations this syntax is the only way to add macros. This is the only use case for this kind of markup in the context of the projectdoc Toolbox.

Synonyms

Transclusion

Resources

More information on transclusion and the projectdoc Toolbox.

Transclusion: Tools to provide or consume content to support reuse.
Excerpt and Transclusion: Explains the differences between and commonalities of the Confluence Excerpt and the projectdoc Toolbox Transclusion features.
Working with Transclusions: Compare the excerpt feature of Confluence with the transclusion feature of the projectdoc Toolbox.
Content Reuse: The projectdoc Toolbox provides a number of features to help teams to reuse content. Content can be transcluded individually or in form of a multitransclude. Authors can even transclude content from multiple documents in the wiki, effectively combining transclusion with automatic lists.