Can I import/show table from another page and add own editable columns to it?

Question

Hi everybody,

question may sound a little bit weird. But I want to import/show a table from another confluence page and add own columns to it where users can fill in their information.

Reason is not to duplicate all the information coming from the other page plus having the bonus of getting changes directly shown on my page too.

Also the additional information is only relevant for my page but not for the page the "master set" comes from.

I know that I can display content by table excerpt and table transformator - but I don't know how to add own editable columns to tables which have their master information located on another page.

Thanks in advance!

Bye

Stiltsoft support · Answer

Hi @TestQa ,

Seems that the archived thread described a workaround using the app that we develop - Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence.

So, you place your existing table inside the Table Excerpt macro and reuse it wherever you need via the Table Excerpt Include macro.

Then you insert the Table Transformer macro and place both Table Excerpt Include and your new manually created table for comments inside it.

Then with the Table Transformer macro you look up these two tables (coming from the Table Excerpt Include macro and a manually created one) by a unique key column.

For example, you reuse this table:

|Project|Assignee      |

|ASD-1  |Brad Hayes   |

|DFG-3  |Molly Gibney|

And you create the following table manually:

|Project|Comment  |

|ASD-1  |Some text 1|

|DFG-3 |Some text 2|

You look up them by the 'Project' column and get the following result table when the page is published:

|Project|Assignee     |Comment  |

|ASD-1  |Brad Hayes  |Some text 1|

|DFG-3 |Molly Gibney|Some text 2|

If you are not familiar with the app, please book a call with the team - we'll show you the use case live.

TestQa_6ytevo · Answer

Hi @Reth  @Katerina Kovriga _Stiltsoft_ can you please share me the answer for this question, above shared community thread link is not working

Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft} · Answer

Hi @Reth ,

Please check this community thread - it seems to be exactly what you need.