Today, that problem is even more visible. Teams are becoming leaner, expectations are higher, and new hires are expected to get up to speed faster than ever. There’s less room for delays, missed steps, or inconsistent training.

If you’ve ever managed onboarding, you’ve probably seen how easily things can slip. A task gets delayed, training isn’t assigned on time, or follow-ups depend on manual reminders. Even with a clear plan, execution becomes inconsistent.

That’s where monday.com starts to make a difference. It brings structure to onboarding by turning it into a workflow where every step is tracked, assigned, and visible. Instead of relying on memory, teams can rely on a system.

But even with that structure in place, onboarding still lacks the extra layer that makes it truly effective.

How does monday.com help you manage employee onboarding?

Onboarding tends to get messy faster than expected. Tasks are spread across emails, documents, and various tools, making it easy for things to fall through the cracks.

That’s exactly where it comes in. It gives you a way to organize onboarding into a clear workflow where every step is assigned, tracked, and visible. You can see who is responsible for what, what’s been completed, and what still needs attention, all in one place.

Why does onboarding need more than tasks and items?

Onboarding isn’t just about checking off tasks. It’s about helping new hires understand how things actually work.

They need to learn processes, tools, and expectations, which usually means going through structured learning modules. Without that, even a well-organized onboarding process can leave people confused or dependent on constant support.

The challenge is that while monday.com is great for managing workflows, it doesn’t natively deliver training or show how someone is progressing and performing through it. That’s why many teams end up using separate tools or manual tracking, which brings back the same problems onboarding was supposed to solve.

How does Smart Courses LMS fit into monday.com?

This is where Smart Courses makes a real difference. It adds that learning layer directly inside monday.com, so training becomes part of the same workflow rather than something separate.

What makes this especially powerful is that Smart Courses doesn’t introduce a new interface or external system. Instead, it uses the same board structure, navigation, and visual design that teams already use in monday.com. Everything feels familiar from the start, which means there’s no learning curve and no need to switch between tools.

Because Smart Courses is built on top of the same board logic, you can use monday.com’s native capabilities directly within your training setup. This includes creating workflows, triggering automations, and leveraging AI automations to handle repetitive actions like assigning courses, updating statuses, or sending reminders.

Course creation follows the same intuitive approach as any other board in monday.com. You can build learning modules by combining different types of content, such as videos, documents, and assessments, and organizing them into structured sections that guide learners step by step. Everything lives within the item view, which serves as a dedicated training piece for each course.

As users go through their training, their activity is captured automatically. Instead of relying on manual tracking, teams can use course insights to see progress, completion, and performance directly within monday.com.

The result is a system where onboarding doesn’t just happen alongside your workflows, but inside them.

A simple onboarding flow using monday.com and Smart Courses

Let’s look at what onboarding actually looks like when everything is connected and automated.

It starts the moment a new employee is added. Instead of having someone manually assign training, the system immediately assigns the appropriate onboarding courses. The new hire doesn’t have to wait or ask what to do next, because everything is already in place from day one.

As they go through their training, course insights give visibility into their progress. You can quickly understand whether the onboarding is moving forward or if someone is falling behind, without needing to check in manually.

At the same time, onboarding content doesn’t stay static. When a course is updated and its status changes from draft to published, it is automatically assigned to the right users. This ensures that every new hire always receives the most up-to-date training without additional effort.

And because people get busy, reminders are sent automatically, and users will be notified. Instead of managers chasing employees, the system keeps things moving on its own.

Why are teams moving toward automated onboarding?

The shift toward automated onboarding isn’t only about scaling teams anymore. In many cases, teams are becoming leaner, and expectations from each new hire are higher than ever.

Companies are investing heavily in AI and automation, sometimes reducing headcount, but that makes onboarding even more critical. Every new employee needs to be productive faster and equipped with the right, up-to-date skills from day one.

This is where onboarding can no longer rely on manual processes. When training depends on follow-ups, scattered materials, or inconsistent delivery, it slows down time to productivity and creates gaps that teams can’t afford.

By combining monday.com workflows with Smart Courses and automations, onboarding becomes a system that ensures every hire receives the same structured training without additional effort. Instead of managing onboarding step by step, teams can rely on a process that runs consistently and adapts as content evolves.

In a context where companies are optimizing resources, investing in people remains one of the most important decisions. Automated onboarding ensures that investment is not only made, but fully realized.

With Learning Path, you can bundle courses and exams into a single, structured journey, transforming scattered content into intentional learning experiences. Whether you’re building onboarding programs, continuous training, or upskilling initiatives, Learning Paths help learners see the bigger picture and stay motivated from start to finish.

Create and manage Learning Paths with ease

Learning Paths are intentionally easy to create and scale. Any user with creation rights can build and manage Learning Paths, making content organization more inclusive and collaborative.

From the editor, creators can:

• Add up to 10 published courses or exams to a Learning Path
• Set linear progression
• Restrict access when needed
• Enable certification
• Add contributors and collaborate

This flexible editor experience helps teams build a learning path experience while staying in control.

A clearer Catalog experience

To support discovery, the Smart Courses Catalog has evolved alongside Learning Paths.

Learners will now see:

• New filters that make Learning Paths easy to find: switch to change the types between Courses, Learning Paths or show all
• Dedicated “Learning Path” tag on cards that clearly distinguish paths from standalone courses or exams
• You can now combine the statuses to find the right course

These updates help learners quickly find what they need to start learning.

Learning Path Player

Once learners enter a Learning Path, the Path Player keeps them focused and confident throughout their journey.

With the Path Player, learners can:

• Move easily between courses in a Learning Path.
• See exactly where they are in the overall journey
• Track progress across the entire path at a glance

Learners always know what they’ve completed and what’s coming next without feeling locked into a rigid flow.
Another update in this recent release is that learners can access and download certificates directly from landing pages. This applies to Learning Paths and courses as well.

Powerful insights

Learning Paths are fully integrated into global insights dashboards, giving admins and managers a clearer view of learner engagement and progress.

Learning Path insights include two dedicated dashboard views:

• One focused on courses and exams within the path
• Another focused on learner progress across the entire journey

Reports automatically include only users with access to each Learning Path, ensuring accurate, actionable data you can trust.

Confluence is where your teams collaborate, document knowledge, and share content. To add structured training and compliance management, Smart Courses for Confluence turns your wiki into a full-featured LMS. The app lets you build courses, quizzes, and certifications directly inside Confluence.

In the latest release, we’ve significantly enhanced the Course Insights dashboard, making learner progress and course versions crystal-clear. Training admins can now instantly see if a learner session is based on an outdated course version, and reports can be broken down by version. These improvements deliver reliable, version-specific analytics that are essential for compliance audits and continuous training.

Enhanced course insights & version tracking

We’ve enhanced the Course Insights section to make tracking learner data clearer and version-specific.

• When a new major course version is published, existing learner sessions from older versions are automatically deprecated.
• Each course title now shows the latest version and when the course was last saved.
• Next to each learner’s name, an icon now shows if their session was completed on an outdated course version. By hovering over the icon, you can see which version they took. Learners can reopen the course player to access the latest version and automatically update their session.
• When data is exported to Excel, each course version with submitted answers to questions will now appear on a separate sheet, giving you clearer version-based reporting.

These changes make Insights more reliable, especially for compliance, audits, and tracking ongoing training performance.

Major versions: What counts as a significant update

Not every edit creates a new major version. Smart Courses automatically creates a new major version only when substantial changes are made to the default-language content, such as:

• Content edits: Adding, removing, or editing course sections or components in default language.
• Reordering: Changing the order of sections or components.
• Exam parameters: Updating the minimum pass score.
• New SCORM package: Uploading a new SCORM file.
• Version restore: Rolling back to a previous version of the course.

Minor edits, such as translations or minor course settings changes, do not trigger a new major version.

When a major update is published, the course card and landing page display a “New Content” tag to notify learners.

Course editing rules & Session protection

To preserve the accuracy of learner data across versions, Smart Courses enforces several editing safeguards once learners are enrolled:

• Course type locked: You can’t switch between “exam” and “regular” course types after learner sessions exist. This ensures consistent reporting in Insights.

• Quiz integrity: When editing quiz questions that already have learner responses, changing the answer choices may impact existing data.
  A warning message will appear before saving, reminding you to be cautious before making these changes.

• Certificate protection: If at least one learner has earned a certificate, the certificate feature cannot be disabled in the course editor.
  However, the “Only when pass” setting can still be modified.

These safeguards ensure historical results remain intact and reporting stays consistent over time. You maintain a clear audit trail, with edits that could affect past results either restricted or clearly controlled.

Learner view: Update notifications & certificates

Learners will now see a new information panel on the course landing page whenever a new major version of the course is published.
This helps them know when updates are available and ensures they always learn from the most recent version.

Importantly, when a learner completes a course and earns a certificate, that certificate remains linked to the version they completed.
Any new major version published afterward won’t affect their earned certificate or progress.

Why This Matters

These updates give teams better visibility into training activity across evolving course content.
You can clearly see:

• Which version did each learner complete?
• When and how the course content changed
• How updates affect completion rates and results over time

With session deprecation and enhanced version visibility, Smart Courses for Confluence makes learning data more transparent, accurate, and actionable. You can confidently track, manage, and trust your team’s training history even as courses grow and evolve.

If your team already runs projects, onboarding, HR workflows, and daily operations inside monday.com, chances are you’ve already wondered:
“Can we also train our teams here?”

“Can it function as our LMS?”

Short answer: Yes. And it works even better than you think.

This article explains how monday.com’s structure naturally supports learning, how Smart Courses uses that same architecture to enable training, quizzes, and analytics, and why integrated learning often outperforms a standalone LMS.

1. Is monday.com naturally designed for learning?

Even though monday.com is widely known as a work management platform, its fundamental building blocks mirror the elements you would expect to find in a modern LMS. Boards, for example, are essentially structured databases, the perfect place to organize courses, store training categories, or manage compliance requirements. Items, which normally represent tasks or projects, can easily represent training modules, lessons, assessments, or learning paths.

monday.com also gives teams a flexible visual environment.

Views allow you to present information in various formats, which is incredibly useful for displaying training dashboards or course libraries. The platform’s built-in permissions and automation capabilities also behave much like those in a traditional LMS. You can control who can access what, automatically assign training when someone joins a team and more.

All of these components, structured content, configurable views, workflow automation, and strong reporting, are the exact foundations an LMS requires. Smart Courses builds on that familiar architecture to add the missing layer: the training experience itself.

2. How Smart Courses builds a complete LMS for monday.com right inside your workspace?

What makes Smart Courses LMS truly powerful is how effortlessly it blends into monday.com. Instead of introducing a new interface or external dashboards, the app uses the same visual patterns, the same navigation style and the same workspace flow users are already comfortable with.

This creates a learning environment that feels natural rather than foreign.

Course creation follows the same intuitive logic as building anything else on monday.com. You can assemble training programs by combining videos, PDFs, audio files, questions, and interactive elements.

This content can be grouped or sequenced into sections, allowing you to design structured learning experiences without dealing with the complexity of traditional LMS builders. Everything appears inside the item view, which becomes a dedicated training screen customized for each course.

Smart Courses LMS for monday.com also adds full assessment functionality. Exams can include questions such as multiple-choice, ordering, and essays… Since everything runs on monday.com, learners don’t need to open external tools. Their progress, attempts, scores, and completion dates are recorded directly in the workspace, turning your boards into a live learning database.

Because the app is built natively on monday.com, reporting becomes exceptionally easy. Managers can track performance without leaving their monday.com, filtering results by user, reviewing completion rates, or analyzing quiz performance in real time. The data is always available and always up-to-date.

3. Why does an integrated LMS for monday.com outperform a standalone one?

Standalone LMS platforms often struggle with adoption, not because they lack features, but because they exist outside the daily workflow.

Asking employees to log into another system, with another interface, another set of notifications, and another learning curve, inevitably creates friction. Completion rates drop, engagement weakens, and training becomes something people do in addition to their work, rather than as part of it.

By keeping training inside monday.com, Smart Courses eliminates this friction. Employees already spend their day on the platform; their tasks, communication, and goals already live there. When training appears in the same space, it becomes an organic part of their routine. This significantly improves completion and reduces the mental overhead of switching tools.

Integrated learning also means integrated workflows. With Smart Courses, training becomes part of the full lifecycle of work: when an employee joins, they automatically receive their onboarding courses; when a user joins a new team, new training appears; when a compliance cycle resets, reminders fire automatically.

You also avoid the complexity of maintaining multiple systems. Instead of having an LMS for learning, monday.com for projects, and separate reporting tools, Smart Courses consolidates everything in one place. The result is a simpler, more coherent, and more cost-efficient environment that scales with your team.

In essence, Smart Courses makes not just a platform for managing training, but a platform for growing people, and it does so with the same clarity, structure, and simplicity that users already love.

This release brings a smoother course experience, smarter collaboration, and faster content creation, all designed around how teams actually work. From reusing course sections and components across spaces to simplified course access and cleaner course card design, everything in this update helps you save time, stay organized, and keep your learning process flowing inside Confluence

Let’s explore what’s new!

Import Sections and Components Across Spaces

Before this release, only components and sections from courses published in the same space could be imported.
Now, you can import sections and components from courses created and published in other Confluence spaces, saving hours of setup time.

This update is handy for teams that manage training across multiple spaces, HR, Product, or Compliance… who can now reuse modules, quizzes, or whole sections without starting from scratch.

This new import capability keeps content aligned and up to date across your entire organization.

Improved Course Player Access

We’ve refined how learners access and interact with their courses to create a smoother, more intuitive experience.

The Play, Resume, and Revisit buttons are now located directly on the course landing page, providing a clear and consistent starting point for every learner. Learners can access the landing page by clicking a course thumbnail or title. This update helps users quickly pick up where they left off or restart a course without having to navigate multiple screens.

We’ve moved secondary actions such as comments, share, and delete to a three-dot (⋯) menu, keeping the card layout clean and focused. The status indicator now appears directly on the course card, allowing learners to see whether a course is ongoing or done instantly.

We’re continuously improving Smart Courses to make it the most seamless, native learning experience in Confluence.

Stay tuned for the upcoming release!

We’ll walk through methodology, side-by-side results, pros/cons, use-case recommendations, and a verdict. The goal: help Confluence users and decision-makers (especially those evaluating switching or upgrades) choose wisely.

Methodology & Benchmark Criteria

To make this comparison fair and meaningful, we defined the following criteria and approach:

Test setup & process

To ensure a fair and comprehensive evaluation, we created identical test tables and converted or wrapped them within each plugin. We then performed a series of common data-management tasks such as applying multiple filters, sorting by several columns, adding formulas (SUM, IF…), building pivots, exporting to CSV and PDF, and reverting changes. Throughout the process, we recorded errors, and noted points of friction that could impact the user experience.

To validate our findings, we also cross-checked vendor documentation, user reviews, and community feedback. The results below present a detailed comparison of each tool, complete with insights, commentary, and direct links to supporting documentation.

A full comparison: Smart Tables vs Table Filter vs Aura Table Filter

Below is a comparison table summarizing feature support (✓ = supported, ✗ = not supported).

Tables main features

Features	Smart Tables	Table Filter	Aura Table Filter
Live edit in Confluence pages
Consistent filtering
Calculations & excel like functions	Smart Tables supported functions	(Supports only 5 formulas for calculating columns and only 7 formulas for calculating rows)
Charts	(7 chart types, 4 themes, labels)	(15 chart types, Appearance, themes)	(Less configuration and customizations)
Pivot tables
SQL queries	Coming soon
Spreadsheets macro
Collaborative editing in Spreadsheet
Convert Confluence tables into spreadsheet
Sorting
Grouping
Search in the entire table
Sample table
Revert to Confluence table
Export table	(XLSX, CSV, Word, PDF)	(CSV, Word, PDF)	(CSV, Word, PDF)
Import table	(XLSX, CSV)	(CSV, JSON)
Tabs mode
Pagination
Support	(For every subscription)	(Premium support for advanced plans)	(Only for pro plan)

Native Confluence macro support

Macro/App	Smart Tables ( Creativas)	Table Filter & Spreadsheets (Stiltsoft)	Aura (Appanvil)
Support Atlassian smart links (Confluence page, Jira ticket)
Support external smart links
Table respects the Confluence page width and does not exceed it when media files are used
Display attachments and media files in the page viewer
View attached files right from the page viewer
Faithful Confluence page PDF export style		(Wide media files cause the table to be cropped)	(Does not support macros)
Support expand macro			(Macro titles and buttons are not visible)
Support quotes			(Displays only the text)
Support code snippets		(The native line numbering is removed)	(Displays only the text)
Support Decision macro
Clicking the mentioned username directs you to their profile
Interaction with Action item macro			(Cannot be selected)
Support Info panel macro		(Except the note panel)

Keynotes & observations

Each of the evaluated Confluence table apps brings its own strengths and focus areas, offering different approaches to data management and collaboration within Confluence.

• Smart Tables for Confluence delivers a modern experience with strong performance, intuitive design, and advanced features like global search, sorting, grouping, and import/export. Its seamless integration with Smart Links, Live Docs, and mentions makes it a solid choice for teams seeking a complete, collaborative solution.
• Table Filter by Stiltsoft remains a well-established and reliable tool, offering comprehensive filtering and pivot functionality. While its interface feels more traditional, it continues to serve teams that value stability and proven analytical capabilities.
• Aura Table Filter for Confluence focuses on simplicity and visual presentation. It offers core filtering and sorting options, making it a great fit for teams that prioritize page design and readability over advanced data manipulation.
• Support, documentation, and community involvement matter greatly when users bump into issues. Creativas, Stiltsoft, and Appanvil are active on the Atlassian community and provide tutorial resources.

In the end, all three tools address different needs, from analytical power to visual clarity, allowing teams to choose the solution that best aligns with their workflows and goals.

Usecase: Project Management with Confluence

A project management team maintains a quarterly performance report in Confluence. The report includes multiple tables summarizing:

• Project timelines and completion rates
• Team workloads and logged hours
• Budget vs. actual spend per department

The team needs to combine data from several pages, perform calculations, and group information by department to prepare a shareable PDF report for leadership.

However, native Confluence tables make this process time-consuming and inconsistent; formulas aren’t supported, data formatting often breaks during export, and preserving Atlassian’s macro design in exports is unreliable while using some marketplace apps for Confluence tables.

Solution with Smart Tables

Smart Tables allows users to apply advanced formulas to calculate totals, variances, or completion averages directly inside Confluence. The team can then use grouping to organize results by department, sorting to highlight projects with the largest budget gaps or lowest completion rates.

For deeper insights, users can apply filters to focus on specific quarters, departments, or project statuses, for example, isolating only “In Progress” projects or reviewing results from a single department. In addition, Smart Tables supports pivot tables, enabling teams to summarize complex datasets into clear, aggregated views. For example, this allows them to compare total spend versus planned budget across all departments or review average completion rates per quarter. When exporting to PDF, Smart Tables preserves the original Atlassian macro design and table layout, ensuring that charts, panels, and formatting appear consistently. This makes report sharing with leadership smooth, professional, and visually accurate.

Solution with Table Filter

Table Filter by Stiltsoft supports the team’s need for data analysis through its pivot and formula macros, allowing basic calculations for light comparisons. The team can filter by department or project status and generate summarized overviews using the Pivot Table macro. While it does not support inline grouping in the same way as Smart Tables, grouping can be simulated through pivot configuration. PDF export works reliably for table data but may not fully preserve Atlassian macro styling or complex visual layouts, sometimes requiring post-editing. Overall, it enables solid analytical reporting within Confluence but demands slightly more setup and macro configuration.

Solution with Aura Table Filter

Aura Table Filter helps the team display their quarterly report in a clean, visually structured format. It supports basic sorting, grouping and filtering, allowing managers to quickly narrow down data by department, project status, or timeframe. However, it does not support adding formulas for calculations, which limits its analytical capabilities. Additionally, Aura Table Filter is not fully compatible with most native Confluence macros, which can affect how the layout and styling are preserved during PDF export. As a result, exported pages may not fully match the original design. Aura remains a solid choice for teams that value presentation and visual clarity over in-depth data processing.

In 2025, Smart Tables for Confluence offers one of the most substantial balances of interactivity, formula power, usability, and flexibility, particularly for teams that want to work inside Confluence rather than hopping to Excel. Meanwhile, Table Filter & Spreadsheets remains a compelling, macro-rich option for advanced users building dashboards, merging data, or needing deep macro integration. The Aura table filter still may serve in simpler environments where ease and minimality are priorities.

Keeping learners motivated along the way is just as important as delivering the right content. When employees can clearly see the skills they’re building, training stops feeling like a box to tick and starts feeling like progress toward something meaningful.

In this blog post, we’ll explore how the new Skills & Prerequisites feature in Smart Courses works, how you can set it up as an admin or creator, and the impact it can have on keeping learners motivated and engaged.

How to Set It Up

For course creators and admins

Setting up Skills & Prerequisites is simple and flexible. From the Smart Courses global configuration, admins can define which courses must be completed or which exams passed for a learner to earn a specific skill. This ensures that skills are directly tied to measurable achievements.

At the course level, creators can also add a skill as a prerequisite. This means learners cannot start a course unless they already hold the required skill. It’s an easy way to enforce learning structure, making sure employees build on a solid foundation instead of skipping ahead.

Admins and users with insights viewing permissions also get access to the new User Insights board, where they can check a learner’s completed courses, assigned courses, and earned skills. This visibility makes it easier to track progress and identify areas for development.

The User Dashboard button in the global catalog now leads you to the new User Insights for a general view.

The User Dashboard remains accessible from Course Insights, User Insights, and User Profile.

For learners

On the course landing page, learners can immediately see which skills are required before they can start a session. Their user dashboard displays all the skills they’ve already earned, helping them track their own growth over time.

Whenever an admin updates the requirements for an obtained skill by adding or removing courses, learners are notified right away. Notifications are also sent whenever a learner gains or loses a skill. This keeps everyone aligned and ensures employees always know where they stand, what they’ve achieved, and what’s needed to maintain or expand their skill set.

The Impact on Learning With Smart Courses

Adding skills and prerequisites makes training in Smart Courses more focused and effective.

For managers and HR teams, the benefits are just as clear. Training can now be aligned with business-critical skills, and prerequisites ensure that employees have the right foundation before advancing. This helps prevent knowledge gaps, improves retention, and makes it easier to measure the value of training efforts.

The result is training that feels purposeful: employees know what they’re working toward, and companies can trust that their people are growing in the right direction.

A fresh look for a better experience

The first thing you’ll notice is the redesigned interface. We’ve given Smart Tables a modern, streamlined look with clearer layouts, improved navigation, and editing experience. For teams handling long lists of tasks, budgets, or survey data, the updated design makes it easier to scan and work with information without feeling overwhelmed. It’s a small change with a big impact: instead of wrestling with clutter, you can focus on your data.

Global search: Finding the needle in the haystack

When your table has hundreds of rows, finding one specific piece of information can be frustrating. That’s why we’ve added Global Search. It allows you to search across every column in seconds, with options for case sensitivity and even regular expressions (regex) for advanced filtering. For example, a project manager can instantly find all tasks marked as High Priority, or a team lead can filter rows assigned to a specific colleague.

Grouping and sorting: Organize data the way you want

Tables often aren’t just about storing information; they’re about spotting patterns and drawing insights. With the new Sorting and Grouping features, Smart Tables lets you arrange data in a way that makes the most sense. A project manager can sort tasks by priority to focus on what matters most, while HR teams can group employees by department to review progress at a glance. Instead of exporting data into Excel just to reorganize it, you can now do everything directly in Confluence.

It’s essential to note that sorting and grouping are mutually exclusive options: you can either sort a table or group it, but not both simultaneously.

Import and Export with ease

We know your data doesn’t live in one place. Sometimes it starts in a spreadsheet; sometimes it needs to be shared outside of Confluence. Smart Tables now bridges that gap with easy Import and Export options. You can bring in data from Excel or CSV files in just a few clicks, so your existing spreadsheets are instantly usable inside Confluence. And when it’s time to share, you can export tables to Excel, CSV, Word, or PDF, which is perfect for reports, client updates, or advanced analysis. This flexibility saves hours of copy-pasting and keeps your workflow smooth.

Get started with a Sample Table

You’ll now see a Smart Tables icon in the page byline, right under the page title. From there, you can quickly convert an existing Confluence table into a Smart Table, import data from Excel or CSV, or add a brand-new sample table.

For teams just getting started, the Quick Start option makes it effortless: with one click, you can insert a ready-to-use Smart Table and begin exploring features immediately. Whether you’re testing the app for the first time or setting up a new project, you can get hands-on in seconds.

Enhanced table content

This release also introduces several enhancements that make working with Smart Tables smoother and more collaborative.

You can now use Smart Links to display cleaner, contextual links within your tables.
Even better, both Smart Tables and Live Spreadsheets can now be embedded inside a Live Doc. Collaboration becomes easier with mention macro support, letting you tag teammates directly within tables, while expand macros help keep pages organized by tucking large datasets into collapsible sections.

Built on Forge, built for the future

This release isn’t just about adding new features; it’s about laying a foundation for what’s next. By making Smart Tables fully Forge native, we’ve boosted performance, scalability, and stability. That means faster tables today and more room for innovation tomorrow.

Why it matters

This release transforms Smart Tables from a simple table add-on into a real productivity tool. You’ll spend less time searching, reorganizing, and reformatting and more time analyzing, sharing, and acting on your data. Whether you’re managing projects, running HR processes, or preparing reports for leadership, Smart Tables now adapts to your workflow and removes the friction from working with tables in Confluence.

Stay tuned for the upcoming release!

The timeline has been designed to give organizations time to plan. Key milestones include 2026, when new customers will no longer be able to purchase DC subscriptions; 2028, when existing customers will lose the option to expand their licenses; and finally, 2029, when support and updates will officially end. Until then, customers can continue using their DC environments while preparing for the future.

What This Means for Our DC Customers

For teams currently running on Data Center, this announcement may raise understandable questions: What will happen to my existing setup? How will this impact my daily operations? When do I need to act?

In simple terms, you can continue using your DC apps for now. However, over the next few years, you will need to plan your path to the Cloud. After March 2029, your DC environment will no longer allow edits, updates, or expansions; only viewing will remain possible. Atlassian’s intention is to give every customer sufficient time to evaluate their options, design a migration plan, and make the move without unnecessary disruption.

What You Need to Know About Our Apps

At Creativas, we want to assure you that you are not alone in this transition. All our apps are already available on Atlassian Cloud, ensuring continuity for your teams when the time comes to migrate. Our portfolio is not only Cloud-ready but also Cloud Fortified and backed by SOC 2 Type II certification, which means you can trust our solutions to meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and compliance.

As an Atlassian Gold Marketplace Partner, we are deeply committed to supporting our customers through this change. We provide clear migration pathways and hands-on assistance, from evaluating your current setup to mapping out the steps needed for a smooth migration. For customers who want more tailored guidance, we also offer one-to-one meetings to discuss specific requirements, and we provide live demos so you can see exactly how our apps perform in the Cloud environment before making the switch.

Moving Forward with Confidence

Atlassian has confirmed that future development will focus on Cloud, while support for Data Center will be gradually phased out. Over the coming years, DC products will no longer receive new features, and customers will need to plan when and how to migrate.

With our apps already in place and our support services designed to ease the journey, you can be confident that your organization will make this transition smoothly and successfully.

If you would like to explore what this means for your team, visit our profile on the Atlassian Marketplace or get in touch with us directly. We will work with you to ensure that your transition to Cloud is carried out in a structured and well-supported way, aligned with your organization’s requirements and timeline.

In this blog, we’ll explore why teams need spreadsheets for monday.com , identify who benefits most from it, and review the top options available in the marketplace.

Why do teams need a Spreadsheet for monday.com?

monday.com is designed to help teams plan, execute, and track work in a highly visual and collaborative environment. But when it comes to advanced data operations, like multi-variable calculations, budget modeling, or cross-team data rollups, many teams still rely on traditional spreadsheet tools outside the platform.

Spreadsheets are deeply ingrained in how teams work. They provide flexibility for custom calculations, enable centralized views of data from multiple sources, and support complex filtering, sorting, and reporting that may go beyond the native column features in monday.com . Finance, operations, HR, and project managers all benefit from the ability to manipulate large datasets with precision and control.

However, switching back and forth between spreadsheets and monday.com introduces challenges: version mismatches, manual updates, and fragmented collaboration. That’s why the ability to work with spreadsheet for monday.com is more important than ever.

Rather than replacing spreadsheets, the goal is to bring their core strengths calculations, structure, and flexibility into the same space where your workflows already live. That’s where Live Spreadsheets for monday.com steps in. It’s not just another spreadsheet tool; it’s a collaborative data environment built to work with your monday.com boards in real time.

What can Live Spreadsheets for monday.com do?

Live Spreadsheets combines the flexibility of monday.com with the familiar power of Excel, offering a fully integrated experience for teams that manage and analyze data regularly. Instead of switching between external tools and your monday boards, Live Spreadsheets for monday.com lets you bring your work into one space where collaboration, analysis, and updates happen together.

What sets Live Spreadsheets for monday.com apart is its ability to import specific board groups. Rather than pulling in an entire board or dealing with cluttered data, you can select the exact groups you want to work with. This means more relevant spreadsheets, cleaner views, and a setup that reflects how your team actually operates across boards and departments.

Another major advantage is instant synchronization. When something changes on your connected board a status update, a number edit, or a new task, you can instantly sync it and it’s automatically reflected in the spreadsheet. You don’t need to reimport anything. Your data stays current and consistent, reducing manual work and ensuring everyone is working with the latest information at all times.

Live collaboration is also built right in. Your team can work on the same spreadsheet at the same time, updating numbers, formulas, or comments together.

It also supports over 400 Excel-style functions, giving you the power to perform anything from simple calculations to advanced reporting logic. Whether you’re building project budgets, tracking KPIs, or analyzing performance metrics, the tools you need are already there.

You can also import data from Excel to get started quickly, or export your spreadsheet if you need to share it outside the platform. This makes it easy to connect your workflows with external stakeholders or save records for future use.

For teams that value clarity and insight, Live Spreadsheets for monday.com includes advanced formatting, pivot tables, and data visualizations like charts and graphs that help transform raw information into actionable insights. These tools help teams quickly interpret data and make smarter decisions without needing third-party solutions.

And if you prefer a more comfortable viewing experience, Live Spreadsheets offers Dark Mode, making it easier on the eyes during long work sessions.

In short, Live Spreadsheets for monday.com is more than just a table, it’s a collaborative, connected workspace built for data-driven teams. With features like board group import, real-time sync, and multi-user editing, it brings structure and flexibility to your monday.com workflows, helping your team stay aligned, efficient, and always in control of the data that matters most.

Who Should Use Live Spreadsheets for monday.com?

Live Spreadsheets for monday is designed for any team that works with data inside monday.com, whether it’s tracking performance, managing operations, or collaborating across departments. By enhancing native monday.com boards, dashboards, and items with advanced spreadsheet functionality, it empowers teams to do more without leaving their workspace.

• Operations Teams rely heavily on dashboards and cross-board reporting to align KPIs, monitor resources, and coordinate workflows. Live Spreadsheets acts as a flexible layer on top of their boards, enabling deeper data manipulation, bulk edits, advanced filtering, and calculations while keeping everything connected to their operational system of record.

• Project Managers often use boards to track deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and ownership across multiple teams. With Live Spreadsheets, they can pull in group-specific data from project boards, apply custom calculations for progress tracking or effort estimates, and instantly reflect updates from their boards.

• Finance Teams use dashboards and items to monitor budgets, expenses, and forecasts. Live Spreadsheets allows them to apply formulas, run multi-variable models, and build pivot tables perfect for month-end closing, variance analysis, or tracking spend across departments.

• Sales & Marketing Teams manage pipelines, campaigns, and CRM data using monday items, automations, and dashboards. By importing specific board groups into Live Spreadsheets, they can analyze performance, sort and filter leads, and visualize conversion metrics in real time without manual syncing or exporting to Excel.

• HR Teams typically track onboarding, hiring pipelines, and training progress using item-level status updates, forms, and timelines. Live Spreadsheets helps them consolidate multiple group views, calculate onboarding time, track compliance training, and spot trends across departments using dynamic formulas all while collaborating live with other stakeholders.