Select table rows in other page
Asked by Ines Wei?gerber:

Hello all,

I try to use table rows in other pages (e.g. forms). Not the whole table, only defined rows. Does anybody have an idea?

Beside, sometimes this table is used for page properties. It should be compatible with page property macro.


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Ines Wei?gerber](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4368599) ,

We can suggest using our app - [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).

You'll be able to collect and reuse manually created tables, Page Properties Report macro and other tabular macros with the help of the [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros and filter the result table (show only rows that are required for this specific page). And you may also hide the unwanted columns as well. The two latter options are provided by the [Table Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Filter+macro) macro.

[Here](https://stiltsoft.com/blog/2020/06/how-to-aggregate-and-reuse-data-from-multiple-confluence-tables/) is an example where we reuse tables and [here](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+the+app+with+Page+Properties+Report) is an example of amplifying the Page Properties Report macro with the Table Filter and Charts app.

comments: author: Ines Wei?gerber
body: Thanks for your answer.

But I can?t use "Page Properties" and "Table Excerpt" together for the same table in cloud-version of confluence.

"Page Properties Report" is possible to combine with other Table Macros.


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Maybe I didn't get what you mean - here I reuse the Page Properties Report macro with the help of the Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include macros in Cloud:

![Mon 1-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152880iA8F6FC17D38FDF35/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-1.png")

The Table Excerpt Include macro can be wrapped further into the Table Filter macro for filtering and hiding columns or into the Table Toolbox macro for aggregating and visualizing data.

![Mon 1-2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152881i98ED382BF522B994/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-2.png")

And you even can replace the Page Properties macro with the Table Excerpt macro - in this case you'll be able to collect multiple-row tables.


author: Ines Wei?gerber
body: I mean the source table of Page Properties isn?t possible to combine


author: Ines Wei?gerber
body: ![Table.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152883i2D5A70D8A93E6A41/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Table.JPG")


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Now I see and you are right, it's really not possible due to Cloud limitations - you can't nest macros with bodies in the new editor.

But why do you need to wrap the source one-row table wrapped into the Page Properties macro further into the Table Excerpt macro?

You may reuse the whole Page Properties Report macro or exclude the Page Properties macro at all - collect the combined report via the Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include macros. As I have mentioned before, they can collect multiple-row tables and provide additional meta data like page title, parent page, creator, etc.


author: Ines Wei?gerber
body: My source table has more then 25 rows. Page propertie Report shows 11 of them. The columns are very small and difficult to read in Page Propertie Report, but it is just possible.

Additionally I need still another table with about 20 columns of source table. This is to much for Page Propertie Report. So I want to filter the source table or excerpt and filter at another place.

Or is it possible to show Page Properties Report vertical?


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Yeah, it is possible to transpose the Page Properties Report macro with the help of the Table Transformer macro:

![Mon 1-3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152891i8F5152672E907B5E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-3.png")

![Mon 2-4.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152892i15D301AAF56C3523/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 2-4.png")

![Mon 1-4.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152893i930E091E9609A1CA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-4.png")

But here the number of your columns will grow with the number of the pages containing the Page Properties macro.  

I still suggest trying to collect your report using the Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include macros and then wrap your Excerpt Include into the Table Filter macro. As for me, it shows the table with a horizontal scrollbar and you'll be able to [freeze first rows/columns](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/Sorting%2C+freezing+and+other+table+viewing+options#Sorting,freezingandothertableviewingoptions-FreezefirstNrows/columns).

![Mon 1-5.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/152894iBBBAD6D87C75FCE3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-5.png")


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