Here are some examples of use cases for the Page Beam app.

Send reports or documentations to internal and external

With Page Beam, all wiki pages or blog entries in Confluence can be sent with the complete layout by mail to Confluence users, but also to external contacts such as customers, suppliers, partners who do not have access to Confluence.
This allows information to be sent directly to people without the need to log in to Confluence and thus without the need for Confluence user licenses.

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The wiki page is sent to the recipients by mail with all Confluence page attachments like images or pdfs together with the note:

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Send excerpts of Confluence pages

As an alternative to sending a complete Confluence page, only a specific excerpt of a page can be sent. This excerpt is then sent with a button at the end of the mail that links to the complete page.
In this way, users can be made aware of specific content in Confluence (e.g. which is used as a company intranet) and collaboration in Confluence can be increased.

To send only an excerpt of a page, select the option “Only send excerpt of this page with link” when sending:

This page contains a Confluence macro element excerpt:

Only this excerpt together with the button at the end to the complete Confluence page will be sent by mail:

More information on this function can be found in the user guide: Share an excerpt of a page with link

Sending newsletters that are composed in Confluence

Another use case is the sending of newsletters. For this purpose, the newsletter is composed in a Confluence page from content from other Confluence pages.
The Confluence excerpt and include excerpt macro can be used for this.

Here is an example of a Confluence page that compiles a newsletter from individual text and various excerpts from other Confluence pages:

The content of topics 1 and 2 was included from other pages using the insert excerpt macro.
At the end of each topic, the complete page was linked with “Read more here”, so that further information on this topic can be easily accessed in the newsletter if interested.

Here are the two pages from which the excerpt was included:

The result by mail looks like this:

Clicking on the “Read more” links takes you directly to the included pages shown above in Confluence.