Using 1 incopy file in multiple indesign files

Alright, here’s my situation.
At my company we provide e-learning for the medical industry. As marketing products we use printed brochures, flyers and give-away course overviews.
These products all have simular information except for some small details.
For example…
Brochures have:
- course category
- course title
- course author
- course register icons
Flyers have:
- course category
- course title
- course author
Give-away course overviews have (see image below):
- course category
- course title
- course author
- course register icons
- course points
The register icons are small shapes and these shapes together with the points (ptn) and authors are placed in a table to align them.
I'm now using 1 Incopy file for all these products in a not very ideal way.
The way I use incopy is the following:
create/update the incopy file with all details
update linked files in indesign
detach linked files and remove unneeded details for each specific product
export
Because the usages of tables step 3 is a lot of work for me.
We want to hand over the updating of the incopy files to our editors, but for our editors the tables and shapes aren’t easy to create in incopy.
Now I was thinking of linking all paragraphs in separate text-containers and place the unwanted details outside the visible area in indesign, but this is a pain to do aswell.
I would like to know what other techniques I can use.
Is there a way to specify what paragraph from incopy I want to use in my indesign document?
Thanks in advance!

Tables ain't the problem. It's the shapes inside the tables. These shapes are the register symbols. There are about 20 unique icons. Now that I am going to use conditional text they just have to copy paste them. I'm going to make 3 different tables inside one InCopy file with the 3 different table-layouts and show/hide them with conditions:
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