How do people overcome lack of a robust Excel plug-in in Confluence?

[Jaskirat Baweja]

One of the biggest hindrance to roll out Confluence completely is people often asking for better Excel plug-ins. Tables cannot

replace excel as people want to do lot of stuff using excel sheets?

What is the work around or any suggestions for a plug in?

[HuseinA]

Here are some good available plugins:

• Excel Plugin
• Table Plugin
• Table Filter Plugin
• Google Docs Connector for Confluence

[Andreas Springer _Actonic_]

There's also Inline Table Editing for easy modification of tables, cells, rows and columns without having to enter edit mode. Makes things a lot easier.

[Adrien Ragot 2]

Since the last answer, the Play SQL Spreadsheet add-on has also appeared for that purpose. You can see spreadsheets alongside blogs and pages in Confluence 5.

One of the benefits is, when every department has their own data online, you can query each other's data. Please keep me updated whenever you see a usecase that the plugin doesn't fulfill!

Cheers,

Adrien

[Heather D]

Can you use these plugins with JIRA as well? This is a huge issue for our team as well - very cumbersome to manually update JIRA tickets when everyone is filling out data in spreadsheets. Thanks!