Roadmap for MS Office macros

[Leszek Czaplis]

Hi there,

What are Atlassian's plans for MS Office macros (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)? It looks they macros will be removed soon from Cloud:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/office-excel-macro-724765234.html

However there is no warning for Server edition:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/office-excel-macro-375849173.html

It's important for us to know roadmap. We use Server version.

Cheers,

Leszek

[Diego · Accepted solution]

Hello there Leszek!

In the past, the View File Macros were deprecated. However, most recently this decision has been reverted. You can check this report for further information:

CONFSERVER-39829 | Plans to remove the view file macros

From Confluence 6.14 they are now fully supported. Meaning that Atlassian will fix bugs that are present in the macros and the macros will not be removed from Confluence!

Quote from the report:

We know from your feedback that the existing View File macros provide important functionality that the newer file upload and preview experience does not. For this reason, we've decided to reverse the decision to stop supporting these macros. 

The following View File macros are fully supported from Confluence 6.14:

• Office Excel
• Office PowerPoint
• Office Word
• PDF

This means we will fix bugs relating to these macros, and will not remove the macros from Confluence. 

As you may know, Confluence Cloud are in the process of releasing a new viewer for the View File macros. While we may consider this approach for Confluence Server in future, we plan to wait for the experience to be rolled out and refined in Confluence Cloud before we evaluate the suitability of this approach for Server customers. 

Let us know your thoughts on this Leszek!

[Leszek Czaplis]

Hi Diego,

That's good news! Indeed these macros have useful features for our users therefore I'm glad that we will be able to use them in further Confluence releases:)

Cheers,

Leszek

[Diego]

Also glad to hear that this is helpful!