What tools are you using to manage complex tables in Confluence Cloud?

[Helena Freitas]

Hi,

I'm new to the Atlassian Community, and we’re currently in the process of migrating from Data Center to Cloud. This shift has brought a lot of changes in how we handle our internal workflows — especially when it comes to working with structured data inside Confluence.

I’m part of the logistics team here in Austria, and one of the challenges we’ve been facing during the migration is how to recreate some of our more advanced tables: things like delivery logs, grouped checklists, totals per region or client, etc.

We used to rely on a mix of Excel, Confluence macros, and some light scripting in our Data Center setup, but we're now exploring tools that work natively in Confluence Cloud.

While browsing questions here in the Atlassian Community, I came across an app called Simple Table by Simpleasyty. It lets you:

• group rows
• filter by values
• apply basic column functions (sum, count, etc.)
• calculates columns

It's free and fully built under the Runs on Atlassian model, which was a pleasant surprise.

That said, this isn’t intended to promote the app. In fact, @Mia Tamm _Simpleasyty_  from the Simpleasyty team encouraged me to open this question because she thought it would be useful to hear from other companies and partners working in Cloud.

So here’s my question:
How are you handling complex or operational tables in Confluence Cloud?
Do you use Marketplace apps? Have you built internal solutions?

I’d love to hear about tools you trust, especially those used by teams with logistics or operational needs.

Thanks so much,

Helena Freitas
Logistics Coordinator

[Staffan Redelius]

Hi @Helena Freitas and welcome to the Community!

You might want to check out the functionality of Confluence Databases and see if it could be a good fit for you.

It does not have the full funcationality of an SQL-database but it is much better (in my opinion) than using tables or the Excel macro in Confluence.

• You can import and append data from csv-files
• Create filters and views and sort data
• Create nested tables
• Do summaries and calculate entries, empty values etc.

It is inclued in Confluence natively and there are a lot of community led classes that can introduce you to the possibilities.

I hope this helps!

Best regards,
/Staffan