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Hey all 👋
Thanks for your ongoing feedback. I wanted to provide a few updates on some of the topics raised recently:
- Providing a full-width responsive option - in light of the continued feedback on this topic we plan to bring forward work to explore enhancements to full-width tables and table behaviour across different viewport sizes. We will be using the suggestion ticket here in the first instance to communicate and provide updates.
- Creating tables in full-width pages - we hear your feedback in this space - thank you. As a result, we are exploring making changes which would make tables behave as follows in full-width pages;
- Insert tables at full-width / 1800px by default.
- Insert tables left aligned by default (please note the suggestion ticket for providing more table alignment options here)
We will be leaving this JAC ticket here open to track progress on these changes.
- Resizing of nested tables (for already allowed nesting scenarios) - we understand your desire for this to be enabled, and it’s on our list - just not yet. To track this work I’ve created another suggestion ticket here, please give it a follow if this is of interest to you.
With the rollout of this change now completed we will also be closing this ticket.
As per the above there are some specific follow ons which we will be tracking using the relevant JAC ticket linked above.
Cheers,
Rory
Hey tables community,
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent research study, we really appreciate you taking the time to speak to us!
I'm excited to share that we plan to start progressively rolling out this feature over the coming weeks. The new solution will allow you to resize tables in both fixed-width and full-width Confluence pages.
As the feature becomes available to you, we would love to know what you think. Please feel free to comment on this ticket or alternatively to book time to speak with us directly using the Calendly link below.
https://calendly.com/rb-atlassian/tables-research
Cheers,
Rory
Summary
In the new editing improvements, it's possible to display a table at full width, wide or center, but it's not possible to set your own table width. You can change the width of individual columns within the width of the table, but not alter the table width itself.
Suggestion
Provide the ability for users to set their own table widths in the editor.
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CONFCLOUD-66218 Publishing adds unnecessary horizontal scrolling
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[CONFCLOUD-67748] Set custom widths in tables
Echoing Ruben Lado's comment:
Hello. Tables cannot be resized if they are inside the tabs macro. Also, currently, tables with many rows have he information presented very poorly. Is this still being worked on? Ideally, the option from legacy where the table adjusts each column to text width without crunching it, and also takes as much space on screen needed should be available again.
Hello. Tables cannot be resized if they are inside the tabs macro. Also, currently, tables with many rows have he information presented very poorly. Is this still being worked on? Ideally, the option from legacy where the table adjusts each column to text width without crunching it, and also takes as much space on screen needed should be available again.
Although the implemented feature is better than it was, it is still not good enough. A custom width, to me, means any width I would like, including one defined in pixels and not limited to "100%" of the screen.
A primary purpose of confluence is to share information in a way that makes it easily digestible. Unfortunately the table implementation fails in this regard for tables with many columns. Without a "fixed width" table option, there is no way to have a table that is "wider" than the screen (e.g. if columns overflow the available width, display a horizontal scroll bar). Instead, if there are too many columns, each column just gets squished into the available space, forcing text wrapping and killing readability.
I am not surprised that tables still don't work in other macros, one of the user complaints we got after migrating to the cloud last year was that we could no longer embed a table within another table.
More troubling to me is that we still can't left align a table when resizing, that seems like a bad design oversight.
4 years down the road and after a 15 minute try-out, I must say the results was not worth the wait 💩
It seems the new table experience is not working inside other macros?
90% or more of the tables we create are inside other macros (Page Properties, Layout macro, Table Filter, just to name a few).
Any of these macros I try, all produce a full width table again.
It boggles the mind...
Good luck with this.
That's it? Center aligned width adjustment? After all of that feedback - over 1,000 users who took the time to vote for the simple ability to control the width of a table that was there in the older UI, and it's not left aligned? Center alignment looks worse - what sort of "research" did you do?
And now we have to start all over with a new issue ID?
Hey Rory, is there also a ticket to upvote a Responsive formatting option?
This change is great for me, most times I use a tables I want the full width. The big problem it's solved is the columns drifting outside the page width, causing me to scroll. However I use tables inside the layout macro alot, but this new custom width is not working inside the layouts. So I still have the same problem where I need to scroll to see columns outside the width of the layout window.