confluence: Completely missing sort of "inline" table editor (based on page metadata, or based on SQL-Table, or based on page content like status-macro"excel inline ultralight")

[Sven]

Hello,

confluence is such a great product and has so much fantastic plugins, that I can't believe that this doesn't exists already.

Currently we have in our company a lot of sort of "checklists" managed by Excel-Tables. Most used for planning purposes: for a new release or publication collegue X has to do something (task) which has several "states" (e.g. Empty, Started, 50%, Done). Such a table looks often like this:

Week of year/date, Task, User-Dropdownlist, State-Dropdownlist

With the help of the "checklist"-Macros it is possible to implement it. But it is a little overkill for such a simple list to create a subpage for every entry in the table.

If've checked already the available options indicated here:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/735/how-do-people-overcome-lack-of-a-robust-excel-plug-in-in-confluence

and

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/DTBL/Confluence+Dynamic+Table+Plugin

but these are no working options for us. (dynamic table is not working at all and does not allow direct inline editing of an Existing row)

On the other hand the new confluence 4.x table-editor is amazing. The possibility to use shortcuts to insert "(x)"-images is great. The very simple "status-macro" looks like a good starting point. Perhaps this could be enhanced? We could just add some more simple stupid macros like the 4.x status-macro. That would do the trick --- except:

It should be possible to switch the state of e.g. the status-macro directly when viewing a page, without the necessity to change to the edit mode (if you have edit-permissions).

How this could be done?

Any ideas are welcome!

Thanks a lot,

Sven

PS: The checklist-macro is already storing some information directly in the content-metadata (and not in the labels/metadata of a subpage), so this could be a starting point. But unfortunately the source-code is not availabe ;-(

And it is still "old-fashioned-3.x-style", better do something the new 4.x WYSIWYG-way! ;-)

[Andreas Springer _Actonic_]

There's still no native way to do this, but here's another app that can help: Inline Table Editing allows you to stay in view mode and still change table cell contents, add and remove rows or columns and re-arrange them using drag and drop. Hope this helps...

[Adrien Ragot 2]

Hi Sven,

I really agree with you, advanced table features should be included in Confluence. You'll certainly find what you need with Play SQL Spreadsheets, if commercial add-ons aren't a problem for you.

Cheers,

Adrien

[Victor Moleiro]

I have the same problem, we went back to Word. The table doesn ' t work well on Confluence, too complicated. At the end, we share a folder and we put a Word.

[WolframS]

Hi,

we have the same topic here: the need for an inline editable table for different purposes.....

Curious about what will come...

Wolf

[Sven]

Just to add that we have dropped use of "checklist-macro" because the use is too complicated for most of my collegues.

We are still looking for a simple way, e.g. to change a field in a table without the need to go the edit mode and scroll down to the correct field...