Specifying page sections for quick edits

Overview

You may experience slow performance when editing Confluence pages, which contain a large amount of text (e.g., about 10,000 words, equivalent to 20 printed pages).

You may only need to edit certain sections on those pages regularly. You can improve load times and server performance with the Data Section macro in these cases.

This tutorial will show you how to add Data Section macros to a large Terms of Service (TOS) page. This will allow you to edit only those specific sections in the future quickly.

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Ingredients

Guide

1. Determine which sections will be edited often. For this Terms of Service page example, we are interested in editing these two sections on a regular basis:

• Introductory paragraph - contains a date that needs to be updated often.

• Payments section - the payment terms change quite regularly. So, new and existing users must have updated info.

2. Edit the page you are interested in:

• For this example, we will edit the Terms of Service page.

3. Search for the sections that will be edited often.

4. Insert a Data Section macro just above the section.

5. Move the section (cut and paste) into the Data Section macro.

6. Continue adding Data Section macros and moving in sections as needed.

7. When you're done, choose Update to publish the page.

8. The Edit Section buttons is shown above every section you added. Click Edit Section to make any changes to the section’s content.

9. Click Save to publish the page.

Notes

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Result

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