Thanks @GTD, please add me to the EAP as well.
Admittedly I had to step back from this topic, because the ask to justify my use case for Forge made me angry:
- Atlassian recently introduced Table Visualization as yet another (great and well received) platform feature that should ideally have an SPI for partners.
- In your initial release post, you indeed emphasized the use cases that it would be “nice if your macro can extend this commonly used [Chart] macro”, and vice versa if a macro could visualize a table data source and thus complement Atlassian’s own offering.
In other words, I expected table extensibility to provide a decent enough solution for 1 so that partners can provide alternatives to Atlassian’s own solutions as per 2 - great in theory.
I’m now learning that even though Forge keeps being promoted as the future platform while continuing to lack parity with important existing Connect features, it doesn’t even get access to new platform features, where it should be much simpler to cater for both out of the gate. That’s very disappointing and concerning, to say the least.
Happy to elaborate on our resp. use cases in the EAP group.