Building A Catalog / Table Filters

Question

Say I have a catalog listing all of our products.  I want to have the page visible on a product page; however, I also want those interested in product warranty to be able to add warranty details for our products to a sub-page and have new rows added automatically based on the parent table.

For instance, if we have Product A, Product B, and Product C.... I'd like to have those products displayed on a product page along with pricing, etc... but THEN on a sub-page called warranty info, I want to have Products A..B..C listed along with additional warranty-related columns.  Additionally, if anyone adds Product D, I'd like for that to be reflected on the sub-page, without the need for someone to make the additional row.  They would then just update the new warranty information.

Make sense?  How could I do that?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

I don't totally get the use case, but I think you should definitely try out the new Confluence Databases feature!

It could be used to build the catalog part. Even if it doesn't 100% fit your use case, maybe you could adapt your original way of thinking to the Databases concepts.

Stiltsoft support · Answer

Hi @Luke Pickard ,

Maybe our Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence app will help your case.

You'll be able to create smth like this:

* On the sub-page you may create a big table for your needs with all the products and all the columns (prices, warranty, etc.). This table will be opened for editing and adding/deleting rows
* This big table will we wrapped in the Table Excerpt macro for further reusage
* If necessary, additionally you may place the Table Filter on top of the Table Excerpt macro and hide the unwanted columns and filter your table
* On the master page you reuse the big table with the help of the Table Excerpt Include macro and hide the warranty columns (and filter your table as well). This table won't be editable but it will be synchronized with the source table on the sub-page