According to https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/markdown-syntax-guide-776639995.html#Markdownsyntaxguide-Codeblocks it should be possible to insert tables via Markdown syntax. The example is exactly this:
| Day | Meal | Price | | --------|---------|-------| | Monday | pasta | $6 | | Tuesday | chicken | $8 |
However, when pasting exactly that code into Confluence (via the “Insert Markup” macro), what I get is definitely not a table, but rather arbitrarily formatted text.
Am I missing something or is that feature “only” broken?
Hi everyone,
This is an old question which does not have solution.
If you are using Confluence Cloud, you can use our app: Markdown for Confluence
You can open the Markdown editor from the app and simply paste Markdown content, including table data.
The app will do automatic conversion when you save/publish the page and store as native Confluence table.
Hope it helps.
Thanks Nar. Will there be an add-on for the server version of confluence?
Same in Bitbucket Server, and the docu is wrong: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/markdown-syntax-guide-776639995.html#Markdownsyntaxguide-Tables
Came to the party to express my frustration with how BAAAAD markdown support is.
Not only these poor tables but also code blocks won't work!
This really ruins the experience, I just don't understand why won't you fix it, it shouldn't be that hard.
I swear, I will never ever recommend or willingly use Confluence until you fix Markdown support.
I took the same decision a while back. Using Git and Markdown is the way to go. The tooling, integration and flexibility around it is way better than Confluence’s wobbly interface and features that are there but never work as advertised.
I think people (companies) are still using it because they don’t know better. I have been there too. I suggest that you do a little research and see what fits your teams workflow and tools. There are a ton of alternatives out there. I don’t think you will ever look back whatever you choose.
I am actually already using markdown in a git repo, arranged in a doc suite via `mkdocs` (but there is actually plenty of beautiful frameworks for documentation - both generic and specialized). Markdown supports 95% of what you need to write decent docs on a daily basis. Why Atlassian skips on Markdown support is just beyond me.
The reason why I ended up being here, is that I hoped to establish some sort of automatic sync from git repo .md files to Confluence - some management people still use Confluence. Well, it was a good idea, in theory, didn't worked that well in practice.
I tweeted the founders about this. Maybe others can hit some social media channels to get some attention?
@mcannonbrookes @brooksy@scottfarkas
The docs on this are extremely confusing and misleading. This has to be fixed Atlassian.
Writing all my docs in _markdown_, i wanted to import it in Confluence without working with confluence. And i dicovered [pandoc](https://pandoc.org) !
You can use [pandoc](https://pandoc.org) to convert your .md files to jira files (`-t jira` option) which is the atlassian wiki format. Then you copy/paste the resulting text in the ~~bloc code~~ macro.
That's my workflow to work with markdown.
Super cool! Thank you so much!!!
you're welcome.
i've just made a ~little mistake~. It's not ***bloc code*** but ***markup***(_balise_ in french) macro with "wiki confluence" selected.
are we still lost in 2024?
Great idea David, but unfortunately it can't convert MD tables to anything Atlassian can understand.
Among other things that Atlassian doesn't understand: Their users.
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