Overview

This page shows how to use the JSON Table macro, which is part of the Advanced Tables for Confluence add-on, to create a table that contains version information retrieved directly from JIRA. This example uses a number of the advanced capabilities of the JSON Table macro, including Augments to transform data into links and a particular emoticon, so the data is presented in a succinct, informative manner. The columns can be customized to meet your specific needs.

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Macro Name	JSON Table
Macro Syntax	{json-table}

Define these Parameters/Values

Paths to array fields	$
Paths to fields to be included	name,description,releaseDate,released,archived,userReleaseDate,self
Paths to be used to determine sort order	name
Output format	wiki
URL to JSON data	https://bobswift.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/project/TBL/versions
Column to show	name,description,releaseDate,released,archived
Augments to data row values	[%name%\| https://appfire.atlassian.net/browse/TBL/fixforversion/%id% ],,,!%released%.png!,!%archived%.png!
Augments to heading row values	Name,Description,Release Date, Released, Archived
Sort descending	selected
Auto number on each row	selected

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Wiki Markup Input

{json-table:
paths=$|
fieldPaths=name,description,releaseDate,released,archived,userReleaseDate,self|
sortPaths=name|
url=https://bobswift.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/project/TBL/versions|
output=wiki|
columns=name,description,releaseDate,released,archived| 
augments=[%name%%!%https://appfire.atlassian.net/browse/TBL/fixforversion/%id%],,,!%released%.png!,!%archived%.png!,|
headingAugments=Name,Description,Release Date, Released, Archived|
sortDescending=true|
autoNumber=true}
{json-table}

Emoticons

For this example, we augmented the true and false values of the released and archived fields to show an emoticon instead. This is a general technique that can be used to make tables look better. For this case, it is simply having emoticon images named true and false and attached to this page (or some other page) and referenced in wiki markup notation by !true.png! and !false.png!. On your site, you will need to add those 2 images and reference them accordingly. They can be named differently, but must have true and false in the name somewhere so the released and archived values will determine which emoticon is shown. Wiki markup notation for images in the most general way is: !SPACE:my page^myimg.jpg!.

Example Result

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