Column selection - 8.x

Column selection - 8.x

Overview

This example was motivated from this question: unnamed link The use case is to have a single table to maintain and present only some of the data from the table on different pages so that it represents a view more appropriate for the users of that page or for the context for the page.

Steps

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Create a separate page that only contains the table data. 

Use a Confluence native table.

Monthly temperatures

Create a use page using the Include Page macro and the Table Plus macro.

This is where you are going to going to make your column selections and unique styling and other options.

Monthly average temperatures

Create one or more similar pages with different column selections as needed.

Monthly minimum and maximum temperatures

Live examples

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Selection

The selection is made by setting the Column types parameter to hide (H) the columns not needed for this specific page. For the Monthly temperatures example, we hide the second and third columns. 

Column types: S,H,H,F

Advanced example

Dynamic column selection