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willoneal

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Registered: 04/11/07

[CONF-user] working with tables
Posted: Jul 13, 2007 5:20 PM

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I frequently work with a lot of table based data in Confluence, and
I was wondering if anyone had a trick to make it easy - as in far
easier than it is currently.

The built in tables aren't pretty to edit because you can't control
the width of each column; The {section}{column} macros work fine, but
are a PITA to edit, and even then never line up correctly. The excel
plugin is neither editable nor column width controllable.

Does anyone have a better way?

Thanks,
Will O'Neal

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Alain Moran (ad...

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Re: [CONF-user] working with tables
Posted: Jul 13, 2007 5:54 PM

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My way may not be easier, but it does give you 100% control over the
table, eg:

{table}
{tr}
{td:width=50px}content{td}
{td:width=50px}content{td}
{tr}
{table}

The table, tr, td, th, tbody and thead macros are part of the content
formatting plugin

Alain.

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Will O'Neal wrote:

I frequently work with a lot of table based data in Confluence, and I
was wondering if anyone had a trick to make it easy - as in far easier
than it is currently.

The built in tables aren't pretty to edit because you can't control the
width of each column; The {section}{column} macros work fine, but are a
PITA to edit, and even then never line up correctly. The excel plugin is
neither editable nor column width controllable.

Does anyone have a better way?

Thanks,
Will O'Neal

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Lee Allen

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Registered: 04/26/07

Re: [CONF-user] working with tables
Posted: Jul 13, 2007 5:55 PM

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You can use the table-plus macro. It allows column width control. I don't find the syntax very pretty or readable, but it works.

See the Notation Guide for help

{code}
{table-plus:columnTypes=S,-,.|autoNumber=true|sortColumn=3
|columnAttributes=,,style="background:yellow; font-size:14pt;"}
|| Name || Phone || TCP ||

John	555-1234	192.168.1.10
Mary	555-2134	192.168.1.12
Bob	555-4527	192.168.1.9

{table-plus}
{ code}

mgong

Posts: 2
Registered: 07/13/07

Re: [CONF-user] working with tables
Posted: Jul 13, 2007 6:31 PM

in response to: Lee Allen

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Table Plus macro is pretty nice and it even give you the option to have row highlighting capability. Its flaw is that it only allow user to add contents in the wiki markup mode. even when you use rich text editor, it still shows the data in the wiki markup-like manner.