4.7 Mirroring a Table

A mirrored table looks just like a copied table (see Copying a Table), but remains linked to the original table. This link is one-way only: Changes made to the original table are propagated to the mirrored table, but changes made to the mirrored table are not propagated to the original table.

To create a mirrored table, right-click the title row of the table to mirror, and select 'Mirror' from the right-click menu.

 

The new mirrored table is created, and a graphical link to the original table is drawn to indicate the dependency.

A mirrored table is useful when you want to manipulate data in a table without affecting dependent assets. For example, if a table is being used as a component of a Composition Table, manipulation of the table's data would propagate to the dependent Composition Table as well. To prevent this propagation, you can mirror the original table and then work with the mirrored copy instead of the original.

Like a Composition Table, a mirrored table has a Hierarchical mode and an Editable mode; see Editing a Composition Table for more information.

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