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Is it possible to reuse part of a table without over-snippetting or over-conditioning?

say i want a master 28 row table (easy enough). rows 1-28 correspond to different wires in a connector...
now say i want to, on a different page, reuse that table but only show 6 non-consecutive rows...

so it's a main topic page with an overview table that shows what each wire does...
then group the wires in sub topics according to the signals they're inputting/outputting.

basically - is there a way to have a master/slave (santa/elf, what have you) relationship between tables so i only have to update the santa?

What I would do is create a snippet of the entire table, then create snippet conditions for the various versions that contain only certain rows. Snippet conditions work in a similar way to regular conditions, except that you can apply them on a topic by topic basis rather than to the entire output target. You'll need snippet conditions to characterize each of the signal sets you need to isolate and apply those to the TR tag for the appropriate rows in the snippet. Then, in each topic you can tell it to include the correct signal group and exclude the rest. For the main topic, page, of course, you include all of them.

that was easy - and i never would have figured it out on my own - thanks.