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  • Convert your Excel spreadsheets into tables
  • Access data from Excel files from attachments on any Confluence page, URLs or pre-configured profiles
  • Download Excel table data as a CSV file
  • Display and format one or more worksheets in your Excel files
  • Format any of the columns, including the hidden ones, with your own styles
  • Work with common table capabilities including sorting, column totals, and row numbering

  • Displays results of most Excel formulas

    Info

    If a cell value cannot be calculated due to an unknown formula, the cell displays #N/A in the resulting table. Only cell values with known calculation results are displayed in the table.


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Selected from the Macro browserExcel
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Parameters

Please note that the 
Warningnote
titleDeprecation notice
Parameters removed
  • The URL user and URL user password parameters
are deprecated and will be removed on March 31, 2022. We recommend using profiles to access your data from remote locations

Macro specific parameters

If an absolute URL is entered here, the macro reads

from the specified Profile and URL.

  • Use a Profile configured with an absolute URL and valid User and Password to access the Excel data from private sources. The macro reads the content from the specified URL in the profile. 
  • Use a Profile configured with an absolute URL to access the Excel data from public sources, or provide the publicly hosted absolute URL in the URL to Excel file field. Authentication is not required to access the Excel data from public sources, and the macro reads the content from the specified URL.
If a profile is also specified, the macro ignores the given profile and processes content through the given URL.
Macro Editor LabelDefaultDescriptionMacro Parameter
Output formathtml

Specify how the output is displayed. The options are as follows:

  • html - data is rendered as an HTML table
  • wiki - data is rendered in a table with wiki markup
  • unrenderedWiki - data is rendered as text with wiki markup
output
Page of for attachmentCurrent page

Enter the location where the Excel files are available. The following locations are supported:

  • page - Data is read from an attachment to the page specified here; provided that page is in the same space as the page with the macro.
  • space:page - Data is read from an attachment to the specified page that is in the specified space.
page
Name of attachmentMost recent Excel file uploaded to the current page

Enter the name of the attachment.

Note
  • If the Page of for attachment is empty, the attachment specified here is considered to be on the current page.
  • If this field is left empty and if Profile or URL to Excel file are not specified, the macro renders data from the most recent Excel file that was uploaded to the current page. 


name
Profile

Enter a profile name. Contact your administrator to know which profiles are available for use in your instance.

Administrators set up profiles to connect to external sources to render Excel data across multiple pages so that sensitive information like passwords and access tokens can be secured and hidden from view. A profile usually contains the base URL and other credentials that are required to access a specific location.

Enter the relative path to the actual location of the Excel files in the field, URL to Excel file to render the required data. 

Info

To know more about how profiles are configured, refer to this page.


profile
URL to Excel file
password

Enter the URL of the Excel file(s) to be displayed.

 If

 If you enter a valid path

is entered here

, the macro accesses the given location

and processes

and renders the content

accordingly.

If Profile is specified, enter the relative path to the location of the Excel file(s). The file contents are then accessed and displayed through the macro.

Note
urlURL userEnter the user name for URL access through basic authentication.userURL user passwordEnter the user password for URL access through basic authentication.
  •  
  • Use a Profile configured with a base URL and valid User and Password. Enter the relative path to the actual location of the Excel file(s) in the field URL to Excel file field. The macro appends the URL given here with the URL specified in the profile configuration to access the location and render the required Excel data.
Note

It is recommended to use Profile and provide the relative path to the actual location of the Excel file(s) in the field, URL to Excel file.


url
URL connection timeout
Enter time in milliseconds such that URL connections do not timeout before getting data. Use this to increase the access time needed for slow connections. Note that if a zero is given, the connection may wait infinitely.timeout
Sheets to import
Enter a comma separated list of sheet names to be shown in the order specified here. By default, each sheet in the workbook produces a table. The parameter value can be a comma separated list of sheet names (case sensitive) or sheet numbers (1-based counting).sheets
Columns to show

Enter a comma separated list of column numbers in the order specified here. By default, all non-hidden columns are displayed in its existing order. Columns are enumerated starting at 1. If columns are specified, even hidden columns are shown.

Note

Rearrangement of columns, that is, column ordering is not supported. (XL-63)


columns
Show hidden sheets, rows, and columnsfalseEnable this option to show hidden elements of the worksheet.showHidden
Show sheet name before the tablefalseEnable this option to display the worksheet name before the table.showSheetName
Use cell properties for formattingfalseEnable this option to process each cell for special properties. Currently, supported properties are:
  • html - Alignment, font, and background color.
  • wiki - None at this time for individual cells. For columns, the Use column information from Excel sheet parameter can be used. Another alternative is to use Column attributes from common table parameters.
formatCell
Show non-formatted version of generated wikifalseEnable this option to show a non-formatted version of the wiki table following the formatted table. This is used to help resolve formatting issues. It can also be used to convert Excel to Confluence markup by cut and paste.showWiki
Escape special wiki charactersfalseEnable this option to allow these special characters (like '|', '[', ']', '{', '}') to be escaped so that the table format remains unaffected. This option works when a wiki output is requested (Output format is wiki) as some special characters in data can cause incorrect table formatting. The default is false so that the data that has wiki markup can be handled correctly.escape
Include cell hyperlinkstrue

Disable this option to display any hyperlinks in the data as normal text. By default, any hyperlinks in the data are retained as is.

hyperlinks

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Note

When you provide all the parameters listed in the editor for the Excel file, the input provided using URL to Excel file takes precedence.

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