Support relations, rollups, formulas as Notion does

[Thorsten Kamann]

Hello,

I am interested in these features. For now, the Confluence Database is only a standalone content type. 

It hasn't the power Notion's databases have. Do you plan to support more data types, relations, roll-ups and formulas in the near feature? 

Best
Thorsten

[Christina Ristevski]

Hi @Thorsten Kamann , which data types were you specifically referring to?

Also for relations/roll ups - how you tried using our Entry Link field? This allows you to reference an existing entry in another database.  

On formulas - we support basic calculations however do not yet support a formula field. This is something we're looking into!

Hope this helps,

Christina | Product manager, Confluence databases

[Thorsten Kamann]

Sorry for my late answer.

But they are really basic. There isn't basic like sum available.

We need more power in Confluence databases. Relations, roll-ups, formula. Support of Rovo and very important a REST API to read and write databases in automations or Forge add-ons.

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Thorsten

[Raquel Cueto-Senra]

Agreed with you on this request, however -- Rovo already supports Confluence DBs. I have been building and testing a Rovo agent and it has the capacity to retrieve information from DBs, compare data that may be obsolete or incomplete between DBs, and much more. 

[Thorsten Kamann]

Yes, I've tried this. But it's not the same as described in my request. We have forge addons preparing whole spaces and there are two missing links: creation of databases and whiteboards with own templates. For both you can't prepare templates.

[Michelle Prosser-Roberts]

In the same vein, I would like the ability to create a calculated field, such as a summary field in a Confluence database, using something like the excel concatenate.  As well as automation triggers and unique ids for entries... but some basics like Sum would also provide a lot more power.  I had such huge expectations for Databases in Confluence, but I am let down at every turn.