Reusing Content – Best Practices

Reusing content is valuable for many different reasons. As a content author, you avoid duplicating content if the information is available elsewhere already. This saves time when writing and updating content and makes sure the content is consistent across the various locations it’s used in.

On this page you will learn how to build an inclusions library in Confluence and then re-use pieces of content from this library wherever needed in your Scroll site.

Create an Inclusions Library in Confluence

Centralize all content that you plan to use multiple times across your site in one single inclusions library. The library can be a dedicated Confluence space or a parent page that you create. You can then re-use anything from an entire page, to a paragraph or a single image from that inclusions library in the actual published site.

Whenever you want to embed the reusable content from the central location into places in your site, make use the include page or insert excerpt macros from Confluence.

Building an inclusions library and reusing content can be done entirely with native Confluence functionality. Check out Confluence’s documentation on how to Use Confluence for technical documentation for all details.

Keep the Inclusion Library from Being Published

If you don’t want to publish the actual source content as a page in your site, you can use the scroll-sites-no-publish label.

The label prevents Scroll Sites to generate a physical representation of the labeled page in your site. The actual content of the page can still be pulled into the site by pages that include this content via include page or excerpt include macros but the source content itself won’t be accessible via a URL.