Retrieve data from one numbers file and insert it in another?

My goal is this:  I want to essentially link two numbers files.  I need data from several different tables in different sheets to automatically populate cells in a totally separate numbers file. 
Here is why:  I have very detailed orders that all feed (link) to summary pages that are shared with clients.  I also need that same summary information, however, to feed to another file that calculates the margins.  The summary pages (sometimes dozens of pages) are critical for clients to see, but as you can imagine, the margins tables must never be seen by the clients. My preference is to have them be totally separate files so it eliminates the possibility of the margins table every being accidentally sent to clients.
I'm wondering if applescript is the only or best way to accomplish this, or if there might be a more simple solution.
Thanks in advance.
Bob

It may be done with a script but as I have no info about the structure of the document and about which values must be passed, I can't help you.
More, I doubt that you are sending the Numbers document to your clients because this app isn't widely used.
My guess is that you print the file in a PDF.
The number of pages in the PDF will dramatically change if you include the sheets containing the margins so, it would be easy to check if you built a wrong document.
To do the trick with a script, it seems that the easiest scheme would be:
duplicate the original file
add the columns required for the calculations
create the formulas and insert them
copy the relevant columns
paste them in the original document.
I'm reluctant to work this way. The risk of errors is too big.
Here is an alternate scheme.
In your document, change the layout so that columns which are supposed to be seen by clients are contiguous.
This way, you may easily hide the columns which you want to keep 'secret'.
I don't know the way you are working but with a bit of luck, once the formulas are built, maybe you have no need to unhide the 'margins columns'.
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