Insert table from clipboard into comment

[Andor Tóth]

It seems to be impossible to insert a well-formatted table into a Jira comment without Excel or other spreadsheet software, or cell values have to be manually filled. One can neither insert delimited/markdown/textile text from clipboard, nor can format inserted text as a table afterwards. It looks like, that there is no easy and intuitive way to create a table. Please advise!

[Magdalena Zhisheva]

Hi @Andor Tóth ,

Have you tried to click "Insert", i.e."+" -> View more -> Table?

Hope it helps!

[Andor Tóth]

I did, but it does not make a difference. Have you tried?

Here are some samples to try before further advices.

Excel CSV

"date_field","timestamp_field","text_field","integer_field","real_field"
"1970-12-31","1900-01-01 23:59:59","multiline
text","2147483647","4.656613e-10"
"1900-12-31","0001-01-01 01:00:00","emoji here 😀","-2147483646","2.3283064370807974e-10"
"2023-03-22","2023-03-22 16:48:50","text1","123","567.89"

TAB delimited

"date_field" "timestamp_field" "text_field" "integer_field" "real_field"
"1970-12-31" "1900-01-01 23:59:59" "multiline
text" "2147483647" "4.656613e-10"
"1900-12-31" "0001-01-01 01:00:00" "emoji here 😀" "-2147483646" "2.3283064370807974e-10"
"2023-03-22" "2023-03-22 16:48:50" "text1" "123" "567.89"

 Jira Textile

|| date_field || timestamp_field || text_field || integer_field || real_field ||
| 1970-12-31 | 1900-01-01 23:59:59 | multiline
text | 2147483647 | 4.656613e-10 |
| 1900-12-31 | 0001-01-01 01:00:00 | emoji here 😀 | -2147483646 | 2.3283064370807974e-10 |
| 2023-03-22 | 2023-03-22 16:48:50 | text1 | 123 | 567.89 |

Markdown

testdata
---
| date_field | timestamp_field | text_field | integer_field | real_field | 
| --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | 
| 1970-12-31 | 1900-01-01 23:59:59 | multiline
text | 2147483647 | 4.656613e-10 | 
| 1900-12-31 | 0001-01-01 01:00:00 | emoji here 😀 | -2147483646 | 2.3283064370807974e-10 | 
| 2023-03-22 | 2023-03-22 16:48:50 | text1 | 123 | 567.89 | 
 

HTML

<table caption="testdata (3 rows)">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="col0">date_field</th>
<th class="col1">timestamp_field</th>
<th class="col2">text_field</th>
<th class="col3">integer_field</th>
<th class="col4">real_field</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="col0">1970-12-31</td>
<td class="col1">1900-01-01 23:59:59</td>
<td class="col2">multiline
text</td>
<td class="col3">2147483647</td>
<td class="col4">4.656613e-10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="col0">1900-12-31</td>
<td class="col1">0001-01-01 01:00:00</td>
<td class="col2">emoji here 😀</td>
<td class="col3">-2147483646</td>
<td class="col4">2.3283064370807974e-10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="col0">2023-03-22</td>
<td class="col1">2023-03-22 16:48:50</td>
<td class="col2">text1</td>
<td class="col3">123</td>
<td class="col4">567.89</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

If any of those would work somehow out-of-the box, it would be a great.

[Andor Tóth]

I forgot the instructions. Select and copy one of those samples above to your clipboard, and try to insert it into a Jira comment as a table. If you succeed please don't hesitate to share the method here!