2 posts tagged with "dashboard"

The quarterly review loads a 14-tab spreadsheet to answer one question — "where do we actually spend our engineering time?" — because the wiki charts are stale screenshots from last quarter and the numbers table nobody reads. A dashboard is not a spreadsheet: it is the two charts that answer the two questions people keep asking.

Quick answer: build dashboard charts in Confluence with Mermaid pie and xychart-beta charts, rendered by Mermaid Plus for Confluence. Pie for shares, XY for trends — both as editable text that refreshes like code. This post gives you three copy-paste examples: an effort-share pie, a weekly trend XY, and a dual-series release dashboard.

Confluence pages are powerful containers for knowledge, documentation, and team collaboration. But when it comes to displaying visual content -- product screenshots, event photos, marketing banners, or process walkthroughs -- the standard page layout falls short. Images stacked vertically create long, scroll-heavy pages that are difficult to scan, and Confluence's built-in gallery macro only offers a static thumbnail grid with no interactive slideshow behavior.

Widget Carousel for Confluence solves this by adding a fully interactive image carousel macro that you can embed on any Confluence page. You select images from page attachments or upload new ones directly, then display them in a customizable slider with configurable width options. The result is a polished, professional-looking carousel that transforms how visual content is presented in your Confluence workspace.

This FAQ covers the most common questions teams have about Widget Carousel for Confluence -- from basic setup and content types to advanced configuration, responsive design, and how it compares to Confluence's native gallery macro. Whether you are building a company dashboard, a project landing page, or a team portal, this guide will help you get the most out of the carousel.