QRG - Working with Tables

The wiki application, Confluence, offers a simple table function and a more powerful table-plus macro. Here are basic introductions from and links to the Confluence documentation. Additional information is available in the "Tables" section of the full Confluence Notation Guide. A link to the full Notation Guide is also provided at the bottom of the "Help Tips" section below wiki page edit boxes.

Working with Tables

You can use Confluence wiki markup or the Rich Text editor to create tables. This Confluence 2.10 documentation page includes some guidelines on using wiki markup to create tables. There are two types of tables:

• Type 1 allows you to create a simple table with an optional header row. You cannot set the width of the columns in this table. Use double bars for a table heading row.

• Type 2 allows you to specify the width of the columns in the table.

You can add lists and color and other formatting.

Table-plus macro

This macro adds column sorting and other attributes to one or more tables found in the body of the macro. The tables can be produced by wiki markup or other means. Clicking on a column heading will cause that column to be sorted. Clicking again will reverse the order. Note that the excel, csv, or sql macros already have most of these capabilities.

In addition to the parameters listed below, this macro supports common table capabilities.

• heading - Number of rows to be considered heading rows (default is 1 row). Specify heading=false or heading=0 to not show any heading lines. Heading rows do not participate in sorting.

• border - The border width in pixels. Defaults to normal table border width.

• width - The table width in pixels. Default is 100%.

• Other parameters - Other parameters, such as 'cellspacing' or 'cellpadding', are passed through to the html table markup for more advanced capabilities, or to override the default class.