expand macro holding a table filter & a table excerpt include makro

[Christian Ring]

Hi there,
we just recently moved from data center into confluence cloud, thus wondering about the following.
In the migrated site from DC, I have a page with an "expand" (now: Refined Expandable Panel Group) that hold a table excerpt include, it is actually working.

However, if I do it from scratch as tutorials suggest, I am not able to built this.
Somehow it seems to be impossible to put a macro into the "expand" area.

Would highly appreciate any ideas and/ or other solutions that could cater the something similar...
Cheers,
Christian

[Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_]

Hi @Christian Ring 👋

Unfortunately, Confluence Cloud doesn’t support nesting macros, which is why you’re able to see an Expand → Table Excerpt → Table Filter combo after the migration — but you can’t rebuild it from scratch.

(The migrated page still renders, but you can’t insert macros inside Expand anymore in Cloud.)

If your goal is mainly to:

• Show a table,
• Apply a filter on top of it,
• And hide/reveal it behind an expandable section…

…one workaround is:

• Insert a Simple Table macro (from our app Simple Tables for Confluence) → it lets you display + filter a table natively,
• And then wrap that entire Simple Table inside a Refined Expandable Panel Group — so you end up with a working “expand to reveal a filtered table” experience without nesting other macros.

It’s not the same as the Table Excerpt + Filter macros, but might serve the same visual/UX purpose depending on what you need to expose.

Happy to show you how that looks if it could help 😊

— Mia Tamm from Simpleasyty

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Christian Ring 

The cloud doesn't allow you to nest macros.  I have seen some nested macros work after a migration, but I would hold them suspect for working long term.