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Nested tables in Confluence

Jinyoung Park

Hi all,

I used to be able to create a table within a table using the button on top in edit mode. Now, it's grayed out when I'm within a table, and when I hover over the icon, I'm told that nested tables are unsupported.

Is this an issue with the new version of Confluence? Is there a way to get around this? The document already contains nested tables and I would like to keep the format uniform, and copying and pasting does not work.

Thanks,
Jinyoung

Accepted answers

Shannon S

Hi Jinyoung,

I believe you may be using the new Confluence Cloud version, correct? If so, Nested Tables are no longer supported here.

I've created a ticket in our reporting system so that the team can let us know whether or not it will be brought back, but it may be unlikely.

CONFCLOUD-58656

Regards,

Shannon

SAVDEEP SINGH

Is there any workaround?

All comments

Shannon S

Hi Jinyoung,

I believe you may be using the new Confluence Cloud version, correct? If so, Nested Tables are no longer supported here.

I've created a ticket in our reporting system so that the team can let us know whether or not it will be brought back, but it may be unlikely.

CONFCLOUD-58656

Regards,

Shannon

Davin Studer

Atlassian recently announced that they are removing that ability. Personally, I think it is a terrible decision as they are assuming that they know best how you should write your documentation. The reason they gave was so that your documentation could be more readable.

Shannon S

Hi Davin,

I created a ticket linked in my answer to gather feedback on this issue, so please feel free to vote on it as well and comment with your feedback.

Regards,

Shannon

Denise Kramer

Hi Shannon,

Thanks for submitting the ticket. I have added my comments to it. This change will make creating my API documentation on Confluence very difficult.

Everyone,

The only thing I have found as a work around is to copy an existing nested table and just change the text. It is a lot of work, but in a pinch it can work.

Thanks,

Denise

Bar T

Added my comment as well. We rely heavily on our program status pages and inside the tables are more important pieces of data that have to be displayed in a table format. Please provide a work around of some kind.

Mary Johnson_3ar3sr

I can't believe this functionality has been removed without warning! My company is highly dependent on this functionality for documenting requirements. I tried copy and pasting a previously created row and the paste functionality did not work as expected. This is a major issue from our point of view.

丘麗娟

This is a very useful feature for me too, so I would like this feature to be reinstated.

Thank you.

SAVDEEP SINGH

Is there any workaround?

Shannon S

Savdeep,

If you check the bug ticket I posted in my answer, you'll see that some user has come up with a workaround last month. I recommend you reach out to him on that case for more details regarding the workaround. He's attached some images but they appear to not be showing.

Nesting tables workaround

Regards,

Shannon

Denise Kramer

Hi Savdeep,

Place your cursor in the table and select {} Markup from the Insert More Content menu. Ensure Confluence Wiki is selected from the Insert drop-down. Then, type ||col into the Insert text box. You'll a table column in the Preview pane. Click the Insert button. A one column, one row table will be placed within the table. You can then add columns and rows as you normally would.

I saw this work around in another post and it has worked consistently for me.

Good Luck,

Denise

Jignesh Jaiswal_k54kt6

Thanks, this works.

Daniel (home) Harvey

<deleted as I missed this answer as nested reply above - sorry>

unknown

Unfortunately it looks like View More... no longer has markup available in the Cloud version. Any other thoughts?

Denise Kramer

Hi Paul, It is still available in my version. Here is a screenshot to be sure you are looking in the correct place.

unknown

Sadly I cannot find it anywhere... and wonder if this is one more feature that is being removed to simplify Confluence.

Are you running on the Cloud version? This is the new editing surface.

Screen Shot 2019-07-02 at 8.13.42 AM.png

Denise Kramer

Yes, I am using the cloud version. I hope mine does not change anytime soon.

John Corwith

Not sure what your data looks like but have you thought about putting your data in a spreadsheet and using the Office Excel macro to include it on your page?

unknown

Unfortunately that defeats the purpose of a collaborative document. Might as well use Sharepoint/Dropbox/etc.

I really wish we could just flip back to the old editor until the new one was production-ready.

Siddhartha Ghose

Nested Tables are still an issue - showstopper. Any ETA on this feature?

In addition, when will numbering be visible on a published page with numbered headings?

o_loktionov

Disappoited to discover that nested tables are now not working. Convienced nested tables should be reenabled as soon as posible.

Thank You!

Zandrea Lange

I have found the simplest solution..

Simply select the "page layout" icon twice. Then the nestled table becomes available again.

Must be a bug on Atlassian's side.

Charisma Riley_exj4sv

Holy cow! That’s so cool. How did you figure that out? Also, is this for classic pages or the new editor ?? You’re awesome!

Zandrea Lange

Hehe! Thank you! It's a pleasure! I'm glad you can use it

I actually wanted to see if there was some kind of "add table" option under page layouts, and then saw the nested table icon become available again.. who knew..hehehe!

I'm currently working on the classic version. Not a big fan of next-gen, it's got to many limitations on things I need to use, even though it is sleek and pretty.

Jasmeet Singh_lm8gqk

Unfortunately not able to find nested table feature but simulated it using merge and split cells feature of the table. I know it is a bit tedious but it is the closed I have come to simulate nesting. Hope this will help at least some individuals.

Aninda Sen

This is really cool! Thanks!

Chad Sailer

I'm forced back to Excel.
Might as well stay there now

Russell Zera

I also posted this in the comments on the Jira ticket:
While I admit it is quite "hacky" and adds lots of extra clicks for updating, this is an alternate workaround for cloud users (btw, this particular macro is a LIFE SAVER for MANY "missing" features in Cloud.

On the page you have your primary/parent table I created a sub-page under it and created a table for the nested table contents and only had that table in it... save/publish.
Go back to the parent page and go into the edit mode and go to the cell of your table that you want to nest your sub-table in.
Add the "Include Page" macro (or type /include to quick-prompt the macro) and when the window pops up, select the sub-page you created in step 1 (above).
Save/Publish. Your table now has a nested table. The only inconvenience is to edit the nested table, you can only edit it by editing the table in the sub-page.

I attached a screenshot of what the end-result renders as in Confluence Cloud. image (4).png

Jamie Wolman

Does this work for Templates? I am trying to recreate a template which had nested tables and now I cannot. Not sure how sub pages work along with Templates, thanks.

James Walker_5v6de3

My god this product is a step backwards to the dark ages.

Kai_lqspp9

"Nested Tables" - Cloud Workaround

Create a standard table on your page and populate it as needed.
Below, create an "Excerpt" with a new table inside.
- This table will eventually be nested inside the first table from step 1. Populate the table as needed.
- Configure the "Excerpt" macro with a unique name and enable the box to "Hide excerpt on this page."
- Publish the page to save the excerpt macro details; resume editing mode.
In the cell (or merged cells) where you want to nest your second table, insert the "Insert Excerpt" macro.
- Configure this macro to use the current page as the "Source page" and select the "Excerpt name" as defined in step 2.
- Also select the option to "Remove title and frame."
Publish the page and observe the result.
- The table in the excerpt should now load in the original table as a "nested" secondary table.
- The excerpt itself should be hidden.

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