Excel macro - cloud

Excel macro - cloud

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Features

  • 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

Basic use

This macro can be deployed using one of the following methods:

Selected from the Macro browser

Excel

Markup Shortcut

{excel}

Parameters

Parameters removed

Macro specific parameters

Macro Editor Label

Default

Description

Macro Parameter

Macro Editor Label

Default

Description

Macro Parameter

Output format

html

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 for attachment

Current 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 attachment

Most recent Excel file uploaded to the current page

Enter the name of the attachment.

  • If the Page 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 know more about how profiles are configured, refer to this page.

profile

URL to Excel file



Enter the URL of the Excel file(s) to be displayed. If you enter a valid path, the macro accesses the given location and renders the content 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. 

  • 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.

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.

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

columns

Show hidden sheets, rows, and columns

false

Enable this option to show hidden elements of the worksheet.

showHidden

Show sheet name before the table

false

Enable this option to display the worksheet name before the table.

showSheetName

Use cell properties for formatting

false

Enable 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 wiki

false

Enable 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 characters

false

Enable 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 hyperlinks

true

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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