Create charts

It is possible to create charts from Spreadsheet tables via several third party apps.

Here we will show you how to create chars with the Chart Macro available by default in Confluence and with the Table, Filter and Charts for Confluence macro.

Step 1 - Create a Spreadsheet document

The first step is to create a Spreadsheet. Be warned that, to be compatible with the chart macro, some limitations apply :

Only the first sheet of the document can be used in a chart
The standard formatting must be used. Indeed, the chart macro does not handle numerical values formatted (as currency, percentage, ...), it only handles raw numerical values.

Step 2 - Create and configure the Chart macro

Click on "+" in the action bar to open the insert menu. Then click on Other macros.
In the upper-right search box start typing "Chart" and finally select select Chart macro
The Chart macro editor will now pop up.

In our example, we want to generate a bar chart after the Spreadsheet table. We used those settings:

Type: bar
Display rendered data: before

Because the Spreadsheet macro does not render any table in the Confluence editor, it it not possible to visualize a preview of the Chart from the chart macro settings.

As a workaround, if you have trouble configuring the chart, you can:

create a standard confluence table with the same layout as your Spreadsheet
use it to configure the chart
replace it with the Spreadsheet macro.

Step 3 - Move the Spreadsheet into Chart

The last step is to move the Spreadsheet macro into the Table and Filter macro:

Now simply drag & drop or cut & paste your spreadsheet into the Chart macro

In this example we have seen how to create a bar chart from data stored in a Spreadsheet table.

It is possible to generate any type of chart (pie, line, bar, area, ...) as long as the data generated by Spreadsheet is compatible.