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📄 New page creation updates within Databases!

Christina Ristevski

Hey folks,

We’re super excited to announce a new database capability.

Based on feedback, we heard that you wanted more configurability and power when it came to creating pages from a database.

Now, in the page link field you’ll be able to;

Choose either fixed or dynamic page locations

Fixed: New pages will always be created as child pages of the selected parent item
Dynamic: New pages will be created as child pages from wherever you are editing
- Including the database itself or any page it is embedded on

Use both a page template AND a database entry macro

Previously, users had to choose between either adding a page using a page template OR displaying the database entry macro. Today, you can have both!

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We hope you enjoy these new changes!

As always, please leave your thoughts and feedback on how we can continue to improve the experience.

Thanks,

Christina Ristevski | Databases Product manager

Comments

Anne Saunders

I was cautiously optimistic about Confluence Databases when they were first in Beta, and your team is consistently exceeding expectations. This is great!

Christina Ristevski

@Anne Saunders thanks for the kind words! Do let us know if there's anything we can do to improve your experience 😄

Matt Reiner _K15t_

Amazing news @Christina Ristevski!

Here's the shareable video version of the news.

M Amine

That's great news.

Sarah S Allis

Being able to include both a template and the db macro is a step in the right direction, but you really need to be able to add the db macro TO a template. I can see a lot of use cases where you will need different templates in a single database depending on data in the entry fields. Hopefully that's coming soon!

Anne Saunders

@Sarah S Allis YES! I have a use case for the DB Macro in page templates.

Rodolfo Romero - Adaptavist

There are 2 features that I would love to see added to databases.

1. Calculated fields. Nothing too complexed but it would be great to have the option to show sum or average of column, and do simple operations (+, -, *, /) and store the value in another column.

2. Bar, pie and line charts based on a table.

Great job so far btw!

Thanks,

Rodolfo

Anne Saunders

@Christina Ristevski I thought of another one as I'm working on a pretty major Confluence database project - I'd like the option to make pretty hyperlinks that aren't SmartLinks.

When I link a Google Drive asset or a Slack channel, SmartLinks are great.

When I want to store a URL to a ...not-so-smart asset, like a HubSpot Deal or a Harvest Project, my only option is a naked URL, which is not especially human readable.

This means that it's impossible to see without clicking the link whether the linked item is current or from a previous engagement or project.

LAL_i6rck1

Where can i find the documentation for creating pages from database?

Marek Kowalczuk

Is there any work planned to improve the way data is referenced?

Would be nice if the referenced value looked as if it was simply written in the table there (maybe with a small icon indicating that the value comes from a DB), but instead there is a huge box surrounding it, taking a lot of space...

Robert Lundberg

Databases In Confluence are great, but the filters desperately need to be improved. They don't even have basic functionality, such as 'Date > Today', etc - Can only chose 'real' dates. Filters need to have 'code' type options so you can filter by 'field contains', 'like%', general operators '<>=', etc. Even Excel has this type of basic filter!!!

Elmer Hahn

Hi, instead of embedding an iframe of the database, I would much rather and it would load much faster if we could just smart value reference cells, rows and columns of the database.

The iframe embed is limiting in the way we can really utilize the contents and format their display.

Anne Saunders

@Elmer Hahn I love this! I don't want to embed the whole database *anywhere*! I just want a subset of data to be visible other places!

Elmer Hahn

@Anne Saunders Agreed, I really want to be able to just write a page or pages, about a product or service I am working on and refence a cell in the database. That way I can update the database and the pages update without needing to edit every page one by one. It would allow more dynamic content to be created.

Kuzma Fesenko_0kbror

Appreciate this update. The ability to use both a page template and a database entry macro was one of the first features I was looking for when I started using databases.

Hoping that there will be some updates to the Confluence Databases API to view and modify rows within the database.

Dieter Blomme_18dm6n

For the Page link field: Is it normal you can only select global page templates and custom templates, but not Blueprints?

Bill Howard

My org has built a fairly complex inventory tool using confluence tables and the table toolbox, but we have tons of problems with data quality, since there are basically no controls over the data that gets entered into a table. I'm sooooo eager to migrate to confluence databases, but there are a few things standing in our way.

One of these that others have mentioned already is that it would be awesome if we could customize the layout of the database iframe/entry page that is generated, or reference database fields individually in our own tables. We have a LOT of fields and displaying them all in a single column on one page isn't a great viewing experience.

I'd also like to be able do some of the other things we can do with tables, like calculations, charts, powerBI connectors...

Kai Bräunig

This is amazing, but unfortunately it becomes insignificant if we can't restore records that were accidentally changed or deleted.

Aniek van Zutphen

I have allready a document structure and have recently added a database. But if I make a new page from de database the page will end up beneath the database, is it possible that the new page is available underneath the another page in the existing documentstructure?

Emoke Mozesne Csikos

I already have a pretty large database in which we store, keep track of manage our pieces of written content we create for our users.

We can add numbers to the existing entries. It would be great if I could add a number for identifying each entry. I would love to do this in one operation, of course. Then I would like to see an option to automatically add an ID to each new entry. This way we could easily reference our content record entries internally.

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