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November 28, 2023 edited
Hey all, thanks for taking the time to provide us your feedback. I wanted to provide a few updates on some of the topics raised recently:
Providing a full-width responsive option - in light of the continued feedback on this topic we plan to bring forward work to explore enhancements to full-width tables and table behaviour across different viewport sizes. We will be using the suggestion ticket here in the first instance to communicate and provide updates.
Drag n drop - we are currently working on bringing you drag n drop in tables! Please keep an eye on the suggestion ticket here for further updates.
Creating tables in full-width pages - we hear your feedback in this space - thank you. As a result, we are exploring making changes which would make tables behave as follows in full-width pages;
Insert tables at full-width / 1800px by default.
Insert tables left aligned by default (please note the suggestion ticket for providing more table alignment options here)
We will be leaving this ticket here open to track progress on these changes.
Resizing of nested tables (for already allowed nesting scenarios) - we understand your desire for this to be enabled, and it’s on our list - we just aren’t quite there yet. To track this work I’ve created another suggestion ticket here, please give it a follow if this is of interest to you.
PDF exports - @Jay MacEachern I'm sorry but we haven't been able to find a regression as part of this change, however we understand there are some pre-existing limitations around displaying full-width tables in PDFs. Please would you be able to reach out to me direct at rbaker@atlassian.com so the team and I can better investigate with you?
Tables in templates with a first row having a grey fill -@Phil Bustin if my understanding of your issue is correct, then I believe you need to do the following to resolve it;
Navigate to space settings > look & feel > templates
Find your template and click edit
Select the table in question
Select the “table options” dropdown in the table context menu
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November 28, 2023 edited
Hey @Andy Reising - that looks unexpected, is there any chance you can please reach out to me direct at rbaker@atlassian.com so the team and I can investigate with you?
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Based on some quick googling, it looks like the new Confluence editor was officially announced on February 2019. 57 months later....
We're still missing some basic things that we used to be able to do in the old editor.
We actually lost a couple of things that made it into the new editor but then got pulled so you could "make it better".
Whenever something actually does get restored, it seems like it's either significantly worse than what we used to have or doesn't actually solve the problem at all.
I realize there's probably plenty of "under the hood" reasons why retiring the old editor was a good idea, but at this point I'm getting real 'sunk cost fallacy' vibes here.
Is there a point at which you'd consider ending this experiment and rolling back to the markup editor? It had it's issues, but I recall the list being considerably smaller.
This resizing doesn't seem to work when a table is embedded within the layout macro. it continues to resize to full page width. I'd like to see better controls than having to resize tables every time a page is edited.
This is such a design fail, it's 2024 and I have to look up how to resize a table + I can't align it on the page where I want it. I wish my company hadn't migrated to Confluence Cloud.
2 out 10 guys.
P.s. I don't care enough to upvote issues on your public feature request Jira board. It doesn't seem to reduce the distance between your product/UX design team and your customers. It certainly doesn't seem to help you avoid releasing under cooked features like these tables.
Yeah, this is really ugly. I hate it and I miss the old responsive behavior. I want my table to expand to fill the available width. Now, when I open it to full width, then shrink the browser, I get scroll bars. I want to work with my full, large, monitor and be confident that my users will still see it at the 100% width I intended, not at 110% or 200% or whatever. Ugh! This isn't a feature - it's a bug!
This is a great example of a derp moment. The old table editor had these capabilities. It's just about less frustrating to create similar content in Markdown (which should compel shame).
It's a shame that Atlassian spends so much effort in constantly changing the UX of things that were fine instead of doing something valuable, like, for instance creating PII planning board functionality or making its project/portfolio management features good.
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