How to make tables in Jira Issue description

[bennett blazei]

I've been googling around and trying various suggestions for the better part of an hour now but nothing seems to work.

I've tried the ||table|| wiki markup; I've tried changing the renderer through the issue settings; I've tried copy and pasting excel tables; but nothing is sticking.

It looks like the plugins would work, but I'd be hardpressed to pay $10 a user just to make a simple table.

The fact that this doesn't exist and instead forces payment seems intentional and shady.

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, this is a known limitation of the new issue view in Jira Cloud right now.  There is a bug ticket about this https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-69300

Since the new issue view both cannot create a table in the description, nor can a previous one be edited, I would recommend that you disable the new issue view for the time being.  You can do this in Jira Cloud by going to your user avatar (bottom left corner of the page) then click your avatar, and select the Personal Settings, on this page there is a slider you can use to disable the new issue view.

The previous issue view can still create/edit tables in the description of Jira Cloud issues.

[bennett blazei]

Thanks Andrew, your solution works as described.

[bennett blazei]

Strangely, once I enabled this on my profile, other users profiles were able to see and make tables as well without switching.  Not exactly sure what's going on there, but it's working well enough now for our purposes.

[Paul Angus]

Is there any news on when this is going to be fixed? it seems a quite basic bit of functionality which is broken...

[Bob Froehlig]

In case you were watching the ticket https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-69300, it was closed as a duplicate of https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-69259

[Eduardo de Miguel]

That's right. Changing to old view + Excel2Jira Bluurgh is the only way to do this.

[Stefaan Quackels]

Hi @bennett blazei ,

I'm not sure you would still be looking for a solution, but as you mentioned, an add-on would solve this issue.

I'm part of the Table Grid team.

The functionality, however, extends to just adding a table to your issues. It allows you to view and edit tabular data, from local or external data sources.

You can find out more on the marketplace here.

Let me know if you have any questions at all.

Cheers,
Stefaan