Include macro doesn't work when special characters are used in the page title

[Tyler K.]

When trying to include a page with special characters I get an error:

Unable to render {include} The included page could not be found.

For instance using the include macro to include a page titled: Special Character Test :"<>?,./;'[]{}!@#$%^&*()_+=-\][

will not render.

[Stephen Deutsch]

We ran into this problem, too, so I did as CharlesH mentioned and wrote a user macro to include a page based on the page ID. Maybe it will also be helpful for someone else who could not yet upgrade to 5.5.

## @param PageToInclude:title=Page ID of page to include|type=string|required=true
#set ( $Long = $generalUtil.getSystemStartupTime() )
#set ( $pageId = $Long.parseLong($paramPageToInclude) )
#set ( $page = $pageManager.getPage($pageId) )
#set ( $pageContent = "Page not Found" )
#set ( $pageContent = $page.getBodyAsString() )
$pageContent

[Tom Moors]

This issue is resolved in Confluence 5.5: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24785

Great news!

[hsuhailah]

Doubled check on this and it seems to be a limitation of include page macro. However, the above suggestion might be possible.

[CharlesH]

Hi, An alternative to the standard include macro would be to use Reporting in this case. It may handle the special characters better. If you follow this link (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro?focusedCommentId=277250731#comment-277250731) you'll see details of how to use report-info macro to pull back a specific excerpt, or indeed, the entire contents of a page. If this doesn't work then I'd suggest a user macro could achieve your goal, provided you pass the page ID to indicate the page you're interested in. Hope this helps, Charles