topic Re: Sending tables in webex in Webex for Developers

Sending tables in webex

khanali198361 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:25:31 GMT

Hi developers,
I'm trying to send tables to webex using markdown using the messaging API but the tables received are completely out of order.
Is there a way to send tables to webex without disturbing the formatting ?

Re: Sending tables in webex

dtibbe — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:37:25 GMT

Tables are not supported in the markup subset used by Webex.

You may try sending them using html tags (untested, just as an idea), but that is not officially supported

Re: Sending tables in webex

khanali198361 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:42:57 GMT

I tried sending through HTML tags but it just sends the code to webex and doesn't format it to table. Can you tell me how I can send using HTML tags ? Maybe an example ?

Re: Sending tables in webex

dtibbe — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:12:08 GMT

Have you put it into the markdown field?

See this example for a blockquote: https://community.cisco.com/t5/webex-meetings-and-webex-app/blockquote-color-vertical-bar-help/m-p/4627226#M8871

Re: Sending tables in webex

khanali198361 — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:08:29 GMT

The webex messaging API is so bad doesn't even format HTML tables properly.
Im passing the following HTML.

"<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Header</th> <th>Header</th> <th>Header</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> <td>Cell</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>"

Re: Sending tables in webex

dstaudt — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:59:51 GMT

As embedded HTML is not documented/supported for message formatting, it's perhaps unsuprising (if disappointing) that it doesn't work well
Perhaps using an adaptive card (which has a lot more layout/formatting options) would be a useful workaround.

Re: Sending tables in webex

Adam Weeks, Webex Evangelism — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:20:47 GMT

Since markdown tables aren't supported, I've used basic ascii tables generated from https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ and surrounded by triple backticks to get it to render properly

Re: Sending tables in webex

bsaikira — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:42:46 GMT

Hi Adam

How can we add this ascii tables into webex, Can you plesae give brief on this

Sai kiran

Re: Sending tables in webex

DavidStaudt — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:32:50 GMT

A markdown code block (surrounded by triple backticks) should render in a fixed-width font, which will help align characters in an ASCII "table". Note that there is no actual table functionality, you will just need to provide ASCII chracters that result in something that looks like a table, as if you entered it by hand, e.g.:

``` +-----+-----+ | Foo | Bar | +-----+-----| | ABC | 123 | +-----+-----+ ```

An ASCII table generating library might be helpful, e.g. for Python: https://beautifultable.readthedocs.io/en/latest/