Clara Vega _Simpleasyty_ Specialist

What if Confluence could go one step further and let teams build their own structured data models, rather than just organize information into pages or databases, @Dave Mathijs? Imagine being able to define your own tables, connect data across them, collect information through forms, and then use that same data in different…

Thank you, @Anwesha Pan! 😊 It's funny how something that feels completely natural today was once a major innovation. And I find it fascinating that both you and Brita wouldn't bring back any old features. Maybe that's a sign of how far Confluence has come! I wonder what today's Cloud users will look back on with nostalgia…

@Brita Moorus, I love that your answer is "absolutely none"! 😄 That's probably the best compliment Confluence Cloud could receive. And you've raised a fascinating point. For years, the challenge was making knowledge easier to create and share. Now, with AI, perhaps the real challenge is making sure that knowledge remains…

Thanks, @__ Jimi Wikman. I think your point about navigation is exactly where this becomes practical. The same page might belong to a project, relate to a customer and need a review date. A page tree can only show one of those relationships at a time. That’s also what led us to build Simple Metadata at Simpleasyty. The…

Hi @Marc-André Bouchard Your requirements are a very good example of where native Confluence Databases can start to feel limiting for enterprise-style reporting. Atlassian’s documentation shows support for structured fields, filtering, sorting, CSV import, simple calculations, and export options, but your use case goes…

Hi @Laurent Van der Velde Your use case sounds very familiar. If the goal is to keep the existing Confluence tables in place and make them much easier to use after publishing, Simple Table could be worth a look. Full disclosure: I’m part of the team behind it. What makes it relevant here is that it can work with native…

Hi @Erik Johansen You’re not missing anything. In Confluence Databases today, the calculate option is a summary shown at the bottom of a field, and Atlassian says those calculations can be saved as part of a view. That is not the same as a reusable per-row formula field. Atlassian also has open public suggestions for…

Hi @Nikolai Ivanov Yes, if your data is in a native Confluence table on the page, Rovo Chat can use that for data analysis. Atlassian’s documentation lists embedded Confluence tables as a supported data source for Rovo Chat. Where I’d be a bit careful is with tables that come from another macro or from a separate imported…

Hi @Mark Pliacnik You’re right to question the native behavior here. At the moment, Confluence Databases can do simple calculations at the bottom of a field and save them as part of a view, but they still don’t offer a true formula/calculated field that evaluates per row. Atlassian also has an open suggestion for that in…

Hi @Nenad Ristevski if you're open to a different setup, another option could be Simple Table. It works well when the source is a native Confluence table, or when the data can be imported from CSV, Excel, or JSON. From there, you can make the table easier to work with using features like search, grouping, hidden columns,…

Hi @Team Awesome BVBA Yes, this is possible with Simple Table app. If your table has columns like Defects total, Defects ok, and Defects nok, you can add a Calculated Column for the percentage, for example: =("Defects ok" / "Defects total") * 100 This value is calculated dynamically for each row, so if the numbers in the…

Hi @Stefan Pichler If the main goal is simply to stop the table from taking the full page width, the easiest option today is to use Confluence’s native table controls first: resize the table directly, adjust the individual column widths, and try a centered layout instead of full-width. From the Simple Table app side, I’d…

Hi @Gareth Beynon This looks like a pretty complex Cloud setup just to get one filtered reporting experience. A simpler approach could be to keep a single source table and use Simple Table on top of it. That works well when the main goal is to let users filter the data, hide irrelevant columns, and build grouped summaries…

Hi @Kranthi Kumar, Nadigoti It sounds like the real issue here is that the row details are stored inside an Expand macro, and that content is not being treated as exportable table data in CSV. A different approach could be to keep that information directly in a native Confluence table and then use Simple Table on top of…

Hi @Marta Lewandowska I’m not sure there is a native way to create a second table that auto-populates from another table in Confluence. A different approach could be to keep a single source table and use Simple Table on top of it. That works well when the real goal is to present a cleaner summary view of a larger table.…

Hi @Pham Ngoc Tuong It sounds like the real need here is not just consolidating tables, but having a final table that stays editable so users can add extra values manually. In that kind of workflow, a solution based on Simple Table could make more sense than working with a transformed output, because users can keep editing…

Hi @Akanksha Anand Kushwaha , This is a really interesting use case. It looks like the challenge is not only the formula itself, but also getting the data from multiple pages into one table in a simple way. We have been working on a simpler approach on the Simple Table side for cases like this, where page data can be…

Hi @Rasmus Sundin, Thanks for raising this. In Confluence Cloud, the native table editor lets you apply background colors from the built-in palette, but it does not give you full custom color control from the standard table UI. Confluence Cloud also does not support direct theme/CSS customization in the same way as…

Hi @Iryna Komarnitska_SaaSJet_, I really enjoyed this article. I think it describes the use cases for pivot tables in Jira very clearly and in a very practical way. It also made me think that grouping can be another very valuable approach, depending on what teams want to analyze or present. In some cases, pivot tables are…

Hi @Kshitiz_ Kumar , If this is a native Confluence table, what you’re seeing is pretty much expected: Confluence supports inserting a column manually in the editor, but Atlassian’s public documentation does not show a dedicated webhook or API action to insert a column at a specific position inside an existing table. The…

Sorry about this @Tinker Fadoua Thanks for the advice. 

Thanks @Ananya Sharma I think that is exactly the shift a lot of teams are making. What we are seeing first is usually not a full spreadsheet replacement, but a few practical layers of logic added directly inside the table: SLA and delivery signals like days to due date, overdue vs on track, and progress %; finance and…

@Elena_Elevatic, thank you so much. This is such a thoughtful comment. Your point about the “small switches” adding up really stayed with me, because that’s exactly the kind of friction that often gets overlooked. Something can feel technically powerful and still make everyday work harder if it pulls people away from where…

Thanks a lot, @mr john — really appreciate that. That’s exactly the goal behind Calculated Columns: helping teams keep reporting and operational logic closer to where the work already lives in Confluence, instead of pushing everything into separate spreadsheets. I’m especially glad the portfolio, finance, and SLA examples…

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Hi @Barbara M Waxer , One possible way to approach this in Simple Table is to store the result as structured table data instead of relying on Confluence task checkboxes inside another macro. For example, you could use a column like Result with values such as Pass and Fail, and then add a derived column like Fail to mark…

Hi @Franklin Tseng, Clara here. I’m part of the team behind Simple Tables for Confluence, so just to be transparent this answer comes from a vendor perspective. I found your use case very interesting. Managing many properties where each unit has its own board can quickly make navigation difficult, especially when you need…

Thanks @Rik de Valk _Brainboss_ I will do this way.

Hi @Linda Yang welcome to the jungle :)