Optionally sed when in the command OUTPUT (embraced) the parameter type=table.
{column ...} defines the specific configuration of each column of the table.
One command per column.

Used to define placement and formatting of individual objects.
{display ...} embraced by the FORMAT command.

filter is a required command in the LIST body content and is used to define the search query that will be run to gather a set of results from the complete set of objects that have been indexed by the Unified Search.
A large number of possible individual parameters can be 'filtered' . Multiple filter commands can be applied in an additive manner, ie the equivalent of an AND operation.

The FORMAT command is used to create individually templated objects that can then be used in any of the individual OUTPUT methods.
The FORMAT command allows to apply a wiki template and store it inside a named value. The value can then be used inside an other wiki template, or more usefully inside a smarty template.

Up to Tiki 12.3, replaced by 'pagination'
The LIST plugin will display 50 results by default but depending on the output you might want to decrease the visible amount of results to improve performance.