Confluence Database filters and custom views not working...

[Zack Howard]

Hello Atlassian Community! I was wondering if anyone was having these same issues. I am testing out Confluence Databases to see if they could be useful for us and am running into some serious issues. 

Some context: Our company has traditionally stored a ton of data in various Excel sheets, but I think that most of this data could be migrated to Confluence via the new Databases feature. For example: One of the worksheets I am trying to migrate has all of our project codes stored in it. We have a few different clients and want some way to view the project codes related to those clients. Should be pretty easy, right?

My solution: I was thinking of building out a larger Confluence Database that holds all of the project codes for all clients, similar to how they are in the Excel file. What I wanted to do was create different "custom views" filtered by the different clients. I could then embed these custom views onto different pages within Confluence so people would not have to go through and search for the ones they need. 

The problem(s): I cannot get the filters OR the custom views to work properly!

First: When I apply the filter, it is not giving me all of the results it should. It shows just a couple of results, and I do not know why the rest are filtered out. Is there a limit t o the number of rows that a filter can show?

Second: Some of the entries don't even follow the filter rules! I am getting results that clearly do not adhere to the filter specifications. 

Third: Whenever I go to save the custom view, the filter ends up clearing the text field. I create the filter, click "Update View for Everyone", and when I click into another view and come back the filter looks like this:

Idk why I am having so many issues with these. I understand that Databases are still in Beta, but these are some basic features that should be easy to configure. Or am I doing something wrong here? 

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions!

[Scott Beeson]

I just played with this myself (filters and views) and it was very erratic. To the point of being unusable.