Evaluation confluence databases

[Erik Mathijs]

I have only worked with it on a very small scale and limited, but there are already a number of very annoying hickups. Seems to me to be more of a beta version to be honest. Here are the first / biggest / most important problems that I encountered, and for the time being I have limited myself to the most important basic functionalities

• Doing “add entry” at the bottom when searching for something at the top right does not show the new entry in the view you have (IT-technically logical, but as a user I still expect to be able to start filling in that new empty entry)
• Doing “add entry” at the bottom when no search or filter was active adds a new row somewhere. I thought above or below the row where a field was selected, but after some trying it seems to be somewhere in the middle, somewhere random, where I changed something last time, ..? In any case, the DB scrolls all the way down, where the new row is definitely not. Then you have to start scrolling until you find an empty row somewhere
• Typing text in a field is very slow. When you first start it's not too bad, but when you're busy for a while the memory fills up or something. Then I can type, and every +/- second all the letters I type are added
• My rows have a date field on the far left, the rows are sorted by date. If I enter a date in an empty row, that row immediately jumps to the correct place in the order. But the pop-over with the date selector jumps to the top left corner, and it won't go away unless you refresh the page, or do something else that refreshes the view
• If you just entered text in a cell, and then you click on the search box at the top right to search for something, I suddenly type back in the field that was selected. Even if I click on the search box again, sometimes 2, 3 times in a row, and then it works anyway
• A text field has problems with a number of “special” characters that seem quite normal to me: “ ‘ & there are already 3 of them. If you enter it like that it seems to work correctly, but if you open the DB later they are converted to a ?. I understand that you cannot save arrows or smileys. But when I type “UUIDs” I think it is a pity that it becomes “UUID?s”

I promote the use of confluence databases in our confluence environment but still experience quite a few issues

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

Yes, completely agree that Confluence databases need more work.