What is the best way to present tabular data in Confluence?

[Jarett DeAngelis]

So, we have a lot of stuff in Google Docs -- mostly spreadsheets -- that we want to migrate into Confluence.

What's the best way to do this? It seems difficult for Confluence to display tables. There is a .csv importer macro, but it appears not to be compatible with 4.x. Does anyone have any suggestions, or has anyone solved this problem before?

[Wim Deblauwe]

Not ideal, but you can embed a google doc in an iframe as well:

{iframe:src=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=GOOGLEDOCSDOCKEY&output=html|height=1500px|width=1024px}{iframe}

[Joe Clark]

There's also a commercial plugin from AppFusions that allows you to embed Google Docs & Spreadsheets in Confluence pages - Google Docs in Confluence

[Jarett DeAngelis]

We looked at this, but we don't have Google Apps as an institution.

[Bob Swift]

The csv macro works with Confluence 4.x in compatibility mode and soon with native support - see https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/TBL/2011/09/19/Confluence+4.0+compatibility+for+Table+and+other+plugins

[Jarett DeAngelis]

Hi Bob,

Can you describe how to make the csv macro work "in compatibility mode?" Thanks!

[Joe Clark]

"compatibility mode" means that you can only use the macro via the "insert wiki markup dialog" - it doesn't yet work with the rich Confluence 4 editor.