What's New in Confluence Cloud – June 2022 Edition

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Hi there, Community!

Thrilled to bring you an action-packed edition of What's New. You can now turn tables into dynamic charts, add a status label to your page so there's no confusion if it's in draft, express yourself with reactions, and so much more - let's dive right in!

Tell data-driven stories with table visualization 📊

In just a few clicks, you can now turn your tables into dynamic pie charts, bar charts, or line charts, edit values, and present your insights — all without leaving Confluence!

See it in action.

Discovering content just got easier with related pages 📑

Have you ever gotten to the end of a Confluence page and thought “well, now what?” We’ve got you covered! You now have automatically generated suggestions for further reading, based on pages that are viewed or are organized together. Learn more.

 

Express yourself with Confluence reactions 😍

Now you can react to any page or comment with dozens of emoji reactions (including your own custom ones)! Reactions are an interactive way for you and your team to express yourselves, while prompting meaningful engagement on content. Try them out.

Microsoft Teams got a Confluence upgrade 🤝
You can now create, edit, and collaborate on Confluence content without leaving Microsoft Teams! Learn more.

Page status, a new way to keep your team informed 🏷

Never again have someone leave feedback on your page before it's ready. Page status makes it clear what stage your page is at with easy-to-read statuses that can be customized for your team’s unique workflow. Check it out.

Key Confluence functionality is now 3x-4x faster ⚙️
The Confluence Performance team has improved load times on Page Tree, Quick Search, inline comments, images, and more. And this is just the beginning. Read about it. 

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A new way to view Excel files in Confluence 🗂

The Excel Macro has gotten an upgrade, making it easier to engage with Excel data right from Confluence. Excel files are now displayed as spreadsheets with tabs. See it in action. 

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Find the right content faster with breadcrumbs 🍞
Take the mystery out of search with breadcrumbs in advanced search results! Quickly get contextual insight into a page’s location and hierarchy so you don’t have to click through every result. Check it out. 

Bug squashing! A roundup of high impact bug fixes 🐞

Check out the high impact bugs our engineering team has fixed over the last couple months. Learn more.

Thanks for reading! As always, please share your feedback in the comments and subscribe to the whats-new RSS feed to stay up to date on the latest.

[Srinatha T]

Thanks for the timely update @Reni Carlson .

[Svenja Lorenzen]

Super awesome! Thank you dear Confluence Team! This is amazing!!! 🤩💙

[Ollie Guan]

Great, but as a data center user I always feel left out ☹

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Great roundup! The related pages feature is my fav!

[Andy Gladstone]

So great to see many of the features that we have been hearing about for a while making it into production. Our organization has benefitted from many of these already, and we are looking forward to access to all.

[Deleted user]

Great news - and thanks for pointing out the RSS feed to subscribe to regular Confluence news! Curated Confluence news are something I've been looking for since... forever!

[Roshna Khan]

Great stuff! Is there any way we can get dropdown filters for tables 🙏

[Lexi Schmitt]

I always look forward to these monthly updates. Thanks for sharing them with us @Reni Carlson

[kosuke.enomoto]

[Guy Halamish]

Would appreciate adding page breaks for better exported documents. 

[Jason Phan]

Very excited to see these updates!! 👏👏👏

[Jessica Magoch]

Can we please have the ability to use our own hex codes to get the branding to match ours in Confluence? It's really important adopting it as a seamless integration in our company. 

[luan.dang]

Awesome update; I like the improvement for Excel macro. 

[Filip Kalamaga]

Nice, a lot of good updates! Still no automation release to public. 

[Malik Badaruddin]

This is great! thanks for the updates!

[charlenec]

This is great to support Excel preview, thank you so much.

One more suggestion for Excel support: if it's possible to edit the Excel on the WIKI page by different persons at the same time? Please help consider, thanks.

[Yaya Ndongo]

A lot of great stuff. Thanks a lot for the amazing work. 

Just a small thing I've noticed, it's seems that the gifs for "Before" & "After" on the performance announcement  are swapted. 

[Ramy Alfred]

Awesome work Confluence Team!! 🤩

[Erik Mathijs]

Upgrading the Excel Macro is real good stuff.

Because of the functionality of the Excel Macro in our Confluence Server Environment, the first edition of the Excel macro was a breaking point for our users.

We are becoming real cloud fans !!!

Good work Confluence team 👍

[Aaron Geister]

Been super ready for these updates!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️

[Tim Braxton]

The Table Filter & Charts app still works a lot better in comparison to the new "Table Visualization".  With this new integrated "Table Visualization", you cannot filter the table in view mode and have the chart automatically change to represent the filter you applied.  Sorting also has to happen before you put the table data on the page.  For example, if you are building a timeline, date values have to be in ascending order prior to saving - if you want a line chart to show your values along the timeline properly.  Please say I am wrong about this and I have overlooked something (if true).  Baby steps are good though (which still probably took a lot of effort) - and it is much appreciated! ;)  Thanks!

Here is an example of what I can do with the Table Filter and Charts app for Confluence:

The first one shows a Time Line of the last sales in a neighborhood for all three types of "Model" homes.  The second one shows the last sales for each home of a particular "Model".  225 homes total.  When I hover over a point, I see the date and price for that point.  These filters work in "View" mode for the Confluence page.  For now, I will stick with Table Filter and Charts.  Maybe you all need to partner with them like you did with Insight for Asset Management in Jira Service Management - just don't charge us more, please ;)

[Roman Purishy]

Great work. Please do collapsable code blocks

[Nicholas Wade]

Absolute rubbish. Like building a car with no wheels.... Get NUMBERED LISTS SORTED!!!!

[Mayank singh]

Awesome work Confluence Team!!

[Jamin Peckham]

Dang, this round of features is awesome!