Nesting transformed tables into tabs

Question

Hi Team,

Just migrated to Confluence cloud and have been trying to understand the new editor. I have a few tables whose structure look like this:

Table toolbox>table filter>table transformer>Table excerpt include (or sometimes I have the tables and date coming from Jira macro right in this). I am under the assumption that this is a third party feature/app. While this is easy to use n its own, I am now in need to creating multiple tabs that show such data from such tables.

Is there any way I can create tabs-like feature that can hold and nest tables/transformations? I've tried Tabs group, Tabs mosaic and even advanced expand but none of them work.

Any workaround will really help. Note that I/we are not allowed to install any apps from the marketplace so my options are quite limited.

Stiltsoft support · Answer

And another workaround from us: as you can't nest macros with bodies inside Tabs/Expands, you may keep your Toolboxes on separate page/pages.

The top macro inside each Table Toolbox should be wrapped in the Table Excerpt macro.

Then on the master page where you have your Tabs/Expands, you may insert corresponding Table Excerpt Include macros (that are bodiless) and collect your transformed data into one place.

Or if you need to collect the whole page, you may use the standard Page Include macro (that is also bodiless).

Stiltsoft support · Answer

Hi @MudCo ,

The inability to nest macros with bodies is a Cloud editor limitation.

That's why the Table Toolbox macro was developed first place: on Data Center you wrap macros directly on the page, on Cloud it is not possible (so, you take the Table Toolbox and create macro sequences inside its shell).

The same goes both with standard native macros (like Expand) and 3rd party macros.

So, your workaround may be using layouts to structure your data.

Benjamin_tmh9yg · Answer

Hi @MudCo ,

There's really no options as far as I know. You'll need some market place apps to at least get tabs. Otherwise, the next best thing is to have all the tables on the same page or have links on the page that redirect your audience to other pages that contain the table.

You have the option expand macro to hide each of your tables. Whenever, someone want to view a particular table they just expand the macro and the table shows. Then collapse whenever they want to hide it.

All the best.